OK, now what?

["Markus Hoenicka" <Markus dot Hoenicka at uth dot tmc dot edu>]

Scott M Blackledge writes:
 > I tried downloading the current version of cygwin today.  Yes, I've read
 > the FAQ and the readme's.  Perhaps its just been a long day, but I've
 > executed setup.exe and after clicking on the cygwyn desktop icon, the DOS
 > window pops up with
 > 
 >      I have no name!IBM-R4I1LNZXQ9E ~
 > 

I guess you did not set the environment variable USER. Look at
/etc/profile. The prompt that you see is set in the variable PS1. The
default setting is something like $USER@$HOSTNAME, so if these
variables don't exist or contain strange things, your prompt will look
odd.

Markus
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