bash shell not responding

[René Berber]

Alexander wrote:

> alright... i admit it, i'm a hopeless newbie, but this is really frustrating
> me... I've succesfully installed cygwin and the supporting files, but when I try
> to open the batch file, it opens a single cmd-like window that doesn't respond
> to anything. is it possible that it's responding poorly to my hardware (i have a
> laptop)? 

No, unless the laptop is an Apple laptop ;-)

OK, seriously now, do you see bash running in Task Manager's processes?

Does the contents of cygwin.bat look correct?  What happens if you open a
Windows Command Prompt and do what the batch file does?
-- 
René Berber


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