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 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:03:56 -0800 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Reply-To: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin SFTP utilities? and another question In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: X-IsSubscribed: yes On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:58:06 +0000 (UTC), Christopher Thomas wrote: > Also, because of my lack of knowledge in this enviromnet, I have no idea what > I can do with cygwin. I find traversing the realm os cygwin.com very hard as > most of it is way over my head. > > Is there some "beginners" information that I can get on cygwin and what I can > do with what I installed or what I can install. I followed the very basic > installation instructions to achieve being able to use the SFTP server. Cygwin is not really meant to be a teaching tool for Unix-like systems, so I can see why you might find the website confusing. However, there are a lot of good tutorials about learning Unix out there. I would recommend searching the web for "new to unix" or "unix tutorial" for the very basics with a couple caveats: 1. Ignore anything about logging in 2. Ignore anything about installing packages (you know how to use setup.exe already) 2. Ignore most things about mounting filesystems (use 'mount --help' instead) For more advanced topics, you might try getting some Oreilly books and trying things out. Learn some python or perl. Build some simple packages from source. Have fun! -- 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/