X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4E18DA6B.4000305@sbcglobal.net> References: <4E18DA6B DOT 4000305 AT sbcglobal DOT net> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:16:23 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Win7 home premium download: problem or just ignorance. both? From: oren goren To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id p6B6GkMd010207 Thanks, Greg. I've been hung up w/health problems, which is why I have been so late replying to you. I guess that with the install giving me desktop icon choices it never occurred to me cygwin wasn't supposed to run fromthere! I had read a lot of the faq more than once; if it said otherwise I certainly missed it. btw, I'm no UNIX guru but I've done a lot of simpler Open Server work. Thanks again; and soon I reckon I'll be up to the ls in search of my executable! oren On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Greg Chicares wrote: > On 2011-07-09 16:45Z, oren goren wrote: >> on my emachine e525 W7 home premium I downloaded/installed per the >> gatech http mirror. >> >> accepting all install defaults I ended up with two desktop icons. >> >> (A)  the cygwin logo named cygwin.  I clicked on it and got (1) 2-3 >> sample/suggest command lines, (2) my user id, (3) the prompt. I didn't >> know which if any suggested command to take so exited. > > It's a *nix shell--specifically, 'bash'. It's not like a GUI program > that presents a menu from which you pick available actions. > > Try the 'ls' command (letter ell, letter ess, Enter). That should list > the files in the current working directory. And 'man ls' tells you > other ways to use that command. > >> (B) a folder icon labelled with the gatech url (%3a, %2f for :, /). >> The folder contained  folder 'release' and file setup. 'release >> contained folder containing tars for unix commands. > > That directory caches everything that was downloaded. It just makes > it easier to maintain and update your installation. You don't have > to do anything with it yourself--just leave it alone. > >> Although the name 'setup' I have not discovered the way - if any - to use it. > > The 'setup' program just installs Cygwin. Now that you have it > installed, what were you anticipating you'd use it for? > > The "FAQ" and "Documentation" links below may help. > > -- > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Bless the beasts and children. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple