Re: newbie shell-users howto, guide, cheatsheet, or reference?

["Karsten M. Self" <kmself at ix dot netcom dot com>]

on Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:55:17PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) (garbage_collector@telia.com) wrote:
> > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> > Of Karsten M. Self
> 
> >    - The shell.  Bash.
> >    - Directories.  '/' rather than '\'.  Cygwin naming conventions.
> >      Accessing legacy MS Windows paths.
> >    - Essential commands.  Likely:  ls, cd, pwd, rm, less, cat.
> >    - Getting help.  man, apropos.
> 
>  IIRC there is a HOWTO with a certain Linux distro (they use a Red Hat as a
> logo ;) that should fulfill at least part of your needs (can't remember the
> name right now... MSDOS-HOWTO?).

Useful, but not sufficiently focused.

Given my research and responses (both on and off list), I'll be putting
together something shortly at http://twiki.iwethey.org/, which the
Cygwin project will be free to use.

Peace.

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