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And I think it would be awfully nice if you'd help someone out who is 
trying to learn some
basic unix.

Look, I know my questions are basic.  I've said as much.  I never 
claimed to know tons
about unix or cygwin.  But I need to use cygwin.  I used it before 
successfully.  Now I'm
trying to reinstall it and hitting problems.  Cygwin's problem reporting 
page sends you to
this group.  Yes, you all know tons more about unix and cywin than I 
do.  I bow to you.
Now I'd really appreciate it if someone would help me out.  If the 
questions are so basic,
then how hard could it be to teach me some basic information so I can 
get this working?
-Debra

Huang Bambo wrote:
> I think you should learn some basic unix knowledge first.
>
> 2009/8/16 DY <yarringt AT agora-net DOT com>
>   
>> I figured out my old problem, but now I have no /etc/passwd.  How do I create one?
>> I'd use vi, but I don't know what one should look like.  Is there an example somewhere?
>>
>> In case anyone else ever needs this, if you install cygwin, then get command not found
>> for everything, you need to:
>> click on "Computer" -> Properties -> Advanced System settings (on the side bar)-> Environment Variables.
>> Under user variables, add a new environment variable, called CYGWIN_HOME and set its value to C:\cygwin
>> Under system variables, edit the PATH environment variable and add C:\cygwin\bin.
>> Click okay, and restart cygwin. (Thanks to Sudipta Chatterjee)
>> (In case anyone else searches the archives for a solution to this problem).
>> -Debra
>>
>>
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 01:04:05PM -0400, DY wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> All except gcc-mingw-core-3.4.4-20050522-1.tgz and gcc-mingw-g++-3.4.4-20050522-1.tgz
>>>> say done. I'm assuming they were unzipped and run, though, because I have agcc-mingw-core.sh.done
>>>> and a gcc.mingw-g++.sh.done so I'm assuming that's the run,done version of the zipped files.
>>>> Besides, I can't do ANYTHING.  Everything says "command not found".
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> So either set your PATH by hand or specify the full path to the executable
>>> while you are debugging the problem.
>>>
>>> cgf
>>>
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