help for installing cygwin on Windows ME needed

rahul toley rahul_toley@yahoo.com
Sat Apr 14 16:58:00 GMT 2001


Thanks for all your help. My cygwin is up and running.
Now I can proceed from here.

rahul

--- DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:
> 
> > Target Platform : Windows ME (problem ?)
> > Executable version :cygwin-1.1.8-1.tar.gz after
> > untarring and gziping (i use powerarchivers
> extracter)
> 
> Please use Cygwin's setup program
> ( http://cygwin.com/setup.exe ).
> There are registry entries and desktop shortcuts to
> set up also.
> 
> > Effect : If I execute any of the executables in
> the
> > cygwin directory under bin I see a black shell
> opening
> > and then gets killed. I cant makeout anything from
> > this.
> 
> Cygwin programs don't work that way.  Open a shell
> window, *then* run
> the programs from the command line.
> 
> > Side Questions:   which is the main executable. i
> > tried running cygpath.exe cygcheck.exe
> 
> If you run setup, there's a "cygwin" icon on the
> desktop to click on.


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