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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
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Subject: RE: New User question
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:40:31 +0100
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----Original Message----
>From: René Berber
>Sent: 20 May 2005 22:46

> mimiller OOPS ncsa.uiucDOTBLAH wrote:

>> program.  My first guess was; c:cygwin\bin>cygwin vic
>> but I get an error: cannot execute binary file

> but it looks like it is... so first you opened the "Command Prompt",
> changed dir to cygwin, saw that there was a cygwin.bat and tried to run
> it with vic as parameter... no luck, cygwin.bat doesn't work like that
> but, did you notice that the bash prompt came and you changed directory
> to your home directory? that's what cygwin.bat does.

  Actually, if you try that command in C:\cygwin\bin, as the OP apparently
did in the quote above, nothing will happen, because the batch file lives in
the parent directory.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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