Sorry I didn't mean to cause a problem. I just paraphrased the msys welcome doc. The more accurate text is:
"Welcome to the world of MSYS and MinGW. Minimal SYStem is a minimal POSIX system used in the Win32 OS to accomplish configuration and making of packages. MSYS is a fork of Cygwin and is more friendly to the Win32 user" Any way my original problem has already been shown not to be appropriate to this forum, sorry about that. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Newbie-confused-about-chmod-tp30931008p30940440.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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