* Gundament (Tue, 3 Jul 2012 22:38:36 -0700 (PDT)) > > I am new to Cygwin but I understand it does it's best to simulate a > linux terminal.
No. "Cygwin is: a collection of tools which provide a Linux look and feel environment for Windows." http://cygwin.com/ > I want to make a little program and I have written out the entire code and > saved it as a ".sh" file. > > I have paired my Windows computer to open .sh files with Cygwin's mintty.exe > (terminal) You are confusing a terminal (like Mintty) with a shell (like bash). Thorsten -- 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