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Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 13:57:35 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Problem with cygwin setup
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jds wrote:

> Maybe I don't understand you, or your don't understand me, or I'm just clueless, but what I really want to know is how to run cygwin now that it's installed, given that I don't have an icon on my desktop. I dunno, isn't the icon just a shortcut to some .exe, or is it something else? Thanks for your help, but I really didn't know what to do with that big thing that you copied for me.

There should be a cygwin.bat in the directory you choose to install to;
just run that.

Alternatively, open a command prompt:

cd \cygwin\bin  # or whatever your location is
bash -li

To run any postinstall scripts that did not complete, do the following
from the bash prompt:

cd /etc/postinstall
for F in *.sh; do . $F && mv $F $F.done; done

Brian

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