Hello all This sounds like it should be a FAQ question but I couldn't see it there. Sorry in advance if this is tedious.
A few days ago my OS (Win98) inexplicably reverted to a much earlier registry version, resetting all program preferences and file associations etc. Big headache--and recent registry restore files were all wiped at the same time, so I can't fix everything in one fell swoop. The registry was reset to a time (4 years ago!) when I didn't have cygwin installed, which I presume is the cause of the present problem I am having. Cygwin boots into the wrong folder, and won't recognise commands apart from pwd and cd (as far as I've checked--no ls etc). If I cd to my home directory and try to run one of my executables there, I am told that cywin1.dll doesn't exist, though windows sees it fine (in c:\cygwin\bin). Everything was running v smoothly before the anomaly. Is there a simple way I can fix whatever happened? Or will I have to reinstall cygwin from scratch? If anyone can point me in the right direction for understanding what happened and how to fix it, I'll be grateful. I don't know much about the interaction between cygwin and windows, I just use it for compiling and running C programs and some batch text-processing, so apologies if the question is very basic. Thanks --Jon Wild -- 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/
