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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:21:30 +1000
From: Tim Davidson <timd AT werple DOT net DOT au>
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Subject: Re: cygwin B20 installation
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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

Tim

Daniela Beyer wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have a problem with Cygwin B20. After a successful installation and a
> click on the created desktop icon only a dos-window appear with the
> text:
> 
> bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> BASH.EXE-2.02$
> 
> I tried to create almost every possible tmp directory on my HD but the
> message doesn't change.
> Above all it's not clear how to use Cygwin B20.
> Is it only a command line interpreter or is there any windows program.
> Thank you for reply
>                  Matthias Beyer
 
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Tim Davidson
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