Hi, Cygwin is terrific software. I use it all the time. However, I found a strange installation problem that I want to share with you. I have a brand new image of WinXP on my system. This image is company provided. I got it only this morning and I installed some software since; notepad++, google earth, skype etc. When downloading cygwin by its install program, it stalled. I tried again a few times. Eventually, Cygwin got installed. When I typed simple commands like ls or cp, the standard answer of the shell would be "command not found". I could solve it by creating a file named profile in C:\cygwin\etc with contents PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:.:$PATH" Perhaps something went wrong in the beta release? Note that this problem reproduces very well on my system, so I want to share it with you. I have seen lots of discouraging of posting messages on the cygwin pages. However, I could not find this issue anywhere on the internet. If you think this message is not smart or otherwise undesired, please ignore.
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