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Re: Cygwin on XP disapearing terminal mystery


Harry Putnam wrote:
I've been running cygwin in a laptop running XP home.  It was working
as expected.  However its been a while since I used it and not sure
what all has happened that might effect cygwin... but can think of
nothing off hand.

However, now when I click the bash icon a terminal appears and just as
quickly disappears.  I can't use any cygwin tools since the terminal
just flashes once and is gone.

What on earth might cause such behavior?



It's not something on Earth. It has to do with the phase of the Moon. ;-)

The standard approach to this kind of problem is to open a cmd.exe window
and then run cygwin.bat from here.  If there are error messages, you'll now
be able to see and address them.


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