Re: Win7 home premium download: problem or just ignorance. both?

[oren goren <a1rational at gmail dot com>]

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 <gchicares@sbcglobal.net> 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.
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