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Re: cygwin B20 installation
- To: cygwin <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: cygwin B20 installation
- From: Tim Davidson <timd@werple.net.au>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:21:30 +1000
- References: <3798C484.ED96AAA4@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Hi,
By clicking on the "Cygwin B20" icon, you are really just running one
of the many unix-like utilities (albeit a very important one) that
comes with the Cygwin package. The utility is "bash", a shell which
allows you to run commands interactively or via shell-scripts (much
more powerful than DOS batch files).
You don't have to use bash, the Cygwin utilities can be run from a
DOS box under Windows 9x/NT.
For more details, have a look at the FAQ
<http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/faq>.
Re the missing /tmp warning:
At the bash prompt, just enter the command
mkdir /tmp
or from a DOS box
mkdir C:\tmp
Tim
Daniela Beyer wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have a problem with Cygwin B20. After a successful installation and a
> click on the created desktop icon only a dos-window appear with the
> text:
>
> bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> BASH.EXE-2.02$
>
> I tried to create almost every possible tmp directory on my HD but the
> message doesn't change.
> Above all it's not clear how to use Cygwin B20.
> Is it only a command line interpreter or is there any windows program.
> Thank you for reply
> Matthias Beyer
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Tim Davidson
timd@werple.net.au
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