Re: 1.32.22 Cygwin Installation Problem on XP?

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

Ray Duran wrote:
> System: Portable Compaz Evo N800V ; Professional XP 
> 1. I ran setup.exe from a temp file after downloading perl and default apps
> from a cygwin site. Installation seemed to complete succesfully. 
> 2. I manually copied cygwin1.dll from release\cygwin\usr\bin { Before this
> manual copy I would just see a DOS window flash} 
> 3. I launch Cygwin and get the prompt: "bash-2.05b$" . 
> 4. At this point I notice a couple of things: 
> a. The bin file under Cygwin seems to have a whole bunch of .exe
> files...grep,awk, 
> a. I see grep inside of my release , but if I type "grep" . I get a command
> not found. 
> b. The perl tar file under the release folder seems to have alot of stuff
> that I thought would get copied under the cygwin folder and does not. 
> Is my installation of cygwin correct? How can I launch Perl? 


See <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> and follow the directions there
for providing information to this list about your installation.


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