Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Sensitivity: Subject: Re: OT: newbie shell-users howto, guide, cheatsheet, or reference? To: "Karsten M. Self" cc: Cygwin-L Message-ID: From: Brian.Kelly@Empireblue.com Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:09:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-WSS-ID: 12E58CE295732-01-05 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="0__=0ABBE7C2DFFDDA998f9e8a93df938690918c0ABBE7C2DFFDDA99" Content-Disposition: inline Note-from-DJ: This may be spam --0__=0ABBE7C2DFFDDA998f9e8a93df938690918c0ABBE7C2DFFDDA99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Your best bet would be to pick up a few "Unix for Dummies" books, or bookmark a good beginner's unix tutorial on the web. For the cygwin specific, spend a day or two putting a custom doc together to describe the "cygwin specific" stuff. A "Cygwin for Dummies" book would probably not be a waste of someone's time - as more and more "non-code-heads" (like moi) are using cygwin with each passing day. Brian Kelly "Karsten M. Self" @cygwin.com on 06/26/2003 03:21:46 PM Sent by: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com To: Cygwin-L cc: (bcc: Brian Kelly/WTC1/Empire) Subject: OT: newbie shell-users howto, guide, cheatsheet, or reference? I'm advocating rolling out Cygwin as part of a production environment based on Win2K systems. Though I've got extensive 'Nix experience, most of the crew here doesn't. I'm looking for a guide that covers the essentials of what are needed to know to use Cygwin, for a legacy MS Windows / DOS user. Most similar information GNU/Linux goes a bit too far into system administration. What I'm really looking for would cover: - The shell. Bash. - Directories. '/' rather than '\'. Cygwin naming conventions. Accessing legacy MS Windows paths. - Essential commands. Likely: ls, cd, pwd, rm, less, cat. - Getting help. man, apropos. If anyone's familiar with same, please point me in the right direction. Otherwise, I might be tempted to start something. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Iomega: click of death, Jaz Junk, and now, NAS? Not! http://www.google.com/search?q=iomega+jaz+drive+failure "WellChoice, Inc." made the following annotations on 06/26/2003 04:11:24 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attention! This electronic message contains information that may be legally confidential and/or privileged. The information is intended solely for the individual or entity named above and access by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Release/Disclosure Statement --0__=0ABBE7C2DFFDDA998f9e8a93df938690918c0ABBE7C2DFFDDA99 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=C.DTF Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=C.DTF Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBQR1AgU0lHTkFUVVJFLS0tLS0NClZlcnNpb246IEdudVBHIHYxLjIuMiAoR05V L0xpbnV4KQ0KDQppRDhEQlFFKyswZktlZkc4NDQzazA0NFJBczFYQUo5NnJHdklLSk9VOHNiN01J b1ZMNy9mRjgrUTl3Q2ZYaGlLDQpyZGs1RG9hZ3lJb1lwRnlDN0VObGdvaz0NCj1uZ25vDQotLS0t LUVORCBQR1AgU0lHTkFUVVJFLS0tLS0NCg0K --0__=0ABBE7C2DFFDDA998f9e8a93df938690918c0ABBE7C2DFFDDA99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ --0__=0ABBE7C2DFFDDA998f9e8a93df938690918c0ABBE7C2DFFDDA99--