I'd suggest adding a warning about potential name clashes between common Windows and GNU utilities, e.g. 'sort' and 'find'.
I've yet to find a completely safe and general way to avoid picking up /WINNT/system32/sort.exe rather than /usr/bin/sort, short of always asserting than /usr/bin is before /WINNT/system32/ (or wherever sort.exe would be) before invoking sort. Even though you'd never ever need the DOS legacy sort.exe or find.exe, you can't just remove /WINNT/system32/sort.exe; on Win2K and WinXP; it will be resurrected within seconds by the system. So I've acquired a habit of chmod -x /WINNT/system32/find.exe chmod -x /WINNT/system32/sort.exe kind regards Peter Ring -----Original Message----- From: Lisbeth Kellogg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30. juli 2003 23:18 To: 'Joshua Daniel Franklin'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section I would suggest adding a section on the PATH environment and its use when invoking bash from DOS. --- Lisbeth Kellogg Office: 651-675-2610 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Daniel Franklin Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section I've thrown together a prospective "Using Cygwin Effectively with Windows" section for the User's Guide. If you'd like to look at it as a web page: <http://iocc.com/~joshua/tmp/using-effectively.html> I'm going to be leaving this broadband connection in under 48 hours, so I'll probably put this into CVS tomorrow (with any corrections) unless there is a horrendous outcry against it. Then I'll be in and out of contact for probably a(nother) couple of weeks while I move. Some things: --Q: Does anyone know of a page that lists command line configuration utilities included with Windows 95/98/ME vs. Windows NT4/2000/XP? --FYI: There are links to outside sites like download.com, Hummingbird's free-beer SOCKS proxy, etc. --Documentation of printing is sparse since I don't really do it much. Does anyone have extensive documentation of their complex setup? --There's basically nothing on Java except a sample about translating the CLASSPATH to DOS format. I'm not sure what else to put in. There are no Cygwin-native java compilers, right? Thanks. Joshua Daniel Franklin Attached is the text. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
