> 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 wrote this a couple years ago just for that purpose: http://cygwin-lite.sourceforge.net/html/begin.html Even if this "Beginner's Guide" is not to your liking, take a look at the "Other Resources" at the bottom. (Yes, I hope to someday integrate something like this into the real Cygwin documentation. Maybe as a "tutorial".) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- 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/