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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 10:12:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fred_M=FClder?= cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New version help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Fred Mülder wrote: > Hi, > > I have used an older version of Cygwin before. With the new version when I > click on the icon, I get stuck with a console prompt that says bash-2.05b$, > and I am sort of lost from there, as I can't change directory, neither can I > use g++, tar or any other command. I am lost. Can someone please tell me > where I am, and how to get to a point where I can help myself again? > > Thanks in advance! > Fred Fred, Please read , in particular the bit about attaching cygcheck output. This output will contain the information about your machine and your Cygwin installation. The cygcheck executable should be in c:\cygwin\bin, provided you installed in the standard suggested location. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/