On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > After I was able to discuss the problem, we decided that something must > have gone wrong during the installation. Things worked normally once he > got reinstalled. > > However, the installer hung the first time he tried to reinstall, and he > had to kill the process with the windows task manager. But the second > time it worked OK. > > I have another question. My client hasn't a clue about Unix. He's an > experienced computer user, and originally learned to program on a PDP-8, > so he's been around computers for a while. > > Is there a good web page somewhere that will tell a newbie how to get > around in the shell and instruct him on the basic things he might want > to do in it? > > I wanted him to use cygwin so he could have cmp and od. I've been able > to talk him through that much. But I think he would find it useful to > know about bash and the basic utility programs as well. > > Thanks, > Mike
How about 'info bash'? There's also quite a bit of useful info in the Cygwin User's Guide ( http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html ). Searching the web for a beginner's guide to unix might also help. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
