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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 06:54:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Cygwin and beginners to Unix (was Re: Window immediately disappears)
To: crawford AT goingware DOT com
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> Is there a good web page somewhere that will tell a newbie how to get around
in 
> the shell and instruct him on the basic things he might want to do in it?

I wrote this a couple years ago just for that purpose:

http://cygwin-lite.sourceforge.net/html/begin.html

Even if this "Beginner's Guide" is not to your liking, take a look at the
"Other Resources" at the bottom. 

(Yes, I hope to someday integrate something like this into the real Cygwin
documentation. Maybe as a "tutorial".)

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