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From: "John Seeliger" <jseelige AT aaahawk DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Just installed Cygwin
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:09:26 -0500
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I just installed cygwin to be able to use perl, sed, grep and a few Unix
utilities on my Win XP Home Edition computer and I chose Unix file names
during the installation and I now see from
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC59> that I shouldn't have done that since
perl looks for aux.sh and Windows will hang up when looking for a filename
with com1, lpt1 or aux as root or extension.  And sure enough when I try
perl in the shell, it does hang.  So, do I need to delete everything and
reinstall from scratch?  Any other tips so I can avoid any other newbie-type
mistakes and wasting even more time.

Thanks,
-John

--
John Seeliger                     Once again the forces of good and niceness
                                         triumph over the forces of evil and
badness.
jseelige AT yahoo DOT com             -Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 of Control


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