On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:56:41 +0200, Hussein Patwa Wrote: >Apologies for what is probably such an obvious question, but some of the >utilities I wish to use do not support the latest cygwin dll. However, I >tried running the legacy setup but Cygwin will not start, with the Windows >7 Subsystem for Unix complaining of invalid applications and .pif files.
I assume you're clicking on the link on the desktop and getting this error. This is just because at the very end of the setup, cygwin makes a shortcut to the cygwin shell on the desktop. However, it uses some obsolete (to windows 7) file format to create the shortcut, so Windows 7 does not recognize it. Just go to c:\cygwin (or wherever your cygwin root is) and right-click-drag the Cygwin.bat file to your desktop and select "create a shortcut here", and everything will work fine. Stephen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
