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To: "Fractal A." <fractala AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: bash dos
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From: Andrew Markebo <flognat AT flognat DOT myip DOT org>
Date: 21 Dec 2001 21:32:37 +0100
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/ "Fractal A." <fractala AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| Is there a way to run cygwin from a regular dos prompt?  Must I log in to the
| bash shell in order to use the stuff (like g++ flex bison) in cygwin?  

No you don't need to, just put c:\cygwin\bin or wherever you can find
the binaries, in your global path.

A small but though, you need to be careful when you throw paths at the
tools, they want unix-paths, separated by /, not \, and they probably
don't understand drive-letters.

        /Andy

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