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INTRO(1) Cygwin INTRO(1)
NAME
intro - Introduction to the Cygwin Environment
DESCRIPTION
Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for
Windows. It consists of two parts:
A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a UNIX emulation layer
providing substantial UNIX API functionality. The intro(3)
man page gives an introduction to this API.
A collection of tools, ported from UNIX, which provide
UNIX/Linux look and feel. This man page describes the
user environment.
AVAILABILITY
Cygwin is developed by volunteers collaborating over the
Internet. It is distributed through the website
http://cygwin.com, where you can find extensive documenta-
tion, including FAQ, User's Guide, and API Reference. The
Cygwin website should be considered the authoritative
source of information. The source code, released under the
GNU General Public License, Version 2, is also available
from the website or one of the mirrors.
COMPATIBILITY
The majority of the tools Cygwin provides are part of the
Free Software Foundation's GNU Operating System. (In
fact, Cygwin was once known as GNU/Win32.) As such, the
user environment is more similar to a GNU/Linux system
than, for example, Sun Solaris. However, the FSF has put
great effort into maintaining compatibility with standard
UNIX utilities where possible, so assuming the necessary
utilities are installed most scripts will run without
editing on both UNIX and Cygwin.
The default login shell for Cygwin is the GNU "Bourne-
Again Shell", bash, but other shells such as tcsh (an
improved csh) are also available and can be installed
using Cygwin's setup.exe. The Bourne-compatible shell ash
is used as /bin/sh.
NOTES
To port applications you will need to install the develop-
ment tools, which you can do by selecting gcc in setup.exe
(dependencies are automatically handled). If you need a
specific program or library, you can search for a Cygwin
package containing it at:
http://cygwin.com/packages/
If you are a UNIX veteran who plans to use Cygwin exten-
sively, you will probably find it worth your while to
learn to use Cygwin-specific tools that provide a
UNIX-like interface to common operations. For example,
cygpath converts between UNIX and Win32-style pathnames.
The full documentation for these utilities is at:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html
The optional cygutils package also contains utilities that
help with common problems, such as dos2unix and unix2dos
for the CRLF issue.
DOCUMENTATION
In addition to man pages and texinfo documentation, many
Cygwin packages provide system-independent documentation
in the /usr/doc/ directory and Cygwin-specific documenta-
tion in /usr/doc/Cygwin
For example, if you have both less and cron installed, the
command
less /usr/src/Cygwin/cron.README
would display the instructions to set up cron on your sys-
tem.
REPORTING BUGS
If you find a bug in Cygwin, please provide a patch to fix
the bug. There are instructions at:
http://cygwin.com/contrib.html
If you cannot do this, at the very least read
http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
and follow the instructions for reporting found there.
COPYRIGHT
Cygwin is Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
2000, 2001, 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
Cygwin is Free software; for complete licensing informa-
tion, refer to:
http://cygwin.com/licensing.html
MAINTAINER
This man page was written and is maintained by Joshua
Daniel Franklin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SEE ALSO
intro(3)
2002 April 07 INTRO(1)
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