Subject: Re: cygwin B20 installation
From: Chris Faylor <[email-masked]>
To: Tim Davidson <[email-masked]>
Cc: cygwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:35:50 -0400

On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 05:21:30PM +1000, Tim Davidson wrote:
>Hi,
>
>By clicking on the "Cygwin B20" icon, you are really just running one
>of the many unix-like utilities (albeit a very important one) that
>comes with the Cygwin package.  The utility is "bash", a shell which
>allows you to run commands interactively or via shell-scripts (much
>more powerful than DOS batch files).
>
>You don't have to use bash, the Cygwin utilities can be run from a
>DOS box under Windows 9x/NT.
>
>For more details, have a look at the FAQ 
><http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/faq>.
>
>Re the missing /tmp warning:
>At the bash prompt, just enter the command
>	mkdir /tmp
>or from a DOS box
>	mkdir C:\tmp

Actually, more precisely, first run the cygwin 'mount' utility, find
out which drive and directory is being used as root and create a tmp
directory under that.

cgf

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