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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ash-20000627
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:32:57 -0700
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What is ASH? Is it the same as BASH?  I opened a bash shell on my win95
install of cygwin and tried to find ash and couldn't find it anywhere?

/dAVe

-----Original Message-----
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 11:36 AM
Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ash-20000627


>I've installed a new version of ash in sourceware:/cygwin/latest/ash.
>
>Changes:
>
>- When evaluating stdout of backquote commands, it's read in
>  textmode to handle native windows commands in backquotes as
>  well.
>- Corrected output of internal `type' command when given argument
>  contains slashes.
>
>To update your installation, CREATE AN EMPTY DIRECTORY, cd to it, and
>download the latest version of setup.exe from the cygwin/latest
>directory at a Cygwin mirror site near you.  These sites seem to
>be good mirrors (they have the new version of ash already):
>
>US:
>ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/sourceware/cygwin/latest/
>
>Europe:
>ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus/lates
t/
>
>Once you've downloaded setup, type:
>
>    setup ash
>
>Answer the questions as you did when you first installed Cygwin,
>specifying whatever mirror site you used to download the package.
>
>This procedure will only update the ash package.  If you have not
>previously used the new setup.exe program to install a version of
>Cygwin, you probably will need to install the entire Cygwin package for
>correct operation.
>
>Once the setup is complete you may remove this newly created directory.
>It will contain the setup.exe program, a setup log file, and the
>ash-20000627 tar file.  None of these are needed for further operation
>of
>ash but you can keep them around if you are interested in reinstalling
>everything later.  The setup.log file contains diagnostics that will
>be helpful if your installation failed for some reason.
>
>Note that, if you do not use the mirror site above, the ash files may
>take a while to propagate to other mirror sites.
>
>If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin
>mailing list at:  cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com .  I would appreciate
>if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly.
>This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin
>in general.
>
>If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is
>the appropriate place.
>
>--
>Corinna Vinschen
>Cygwin Developer
>Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
>
>
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