----Original Message----
>From: René Berber
>Sent: 20 May 2005 22:46
> mimiller OOPS ncsa.uiucDOTBLAH wrote:
>> program. My first guess was; c:cygwin\bin>cygwin vic
>> but I get an error: cannot execute binary file
> but it looks like it is... so first you opened the "Command Prompt",
> changed dir to cygwin, saw that there was a cygwin.bat and tried to run
> it with vic as parameter... no luck, cygwin.bat doesn't work like that
> but, did you notice that the bash prompt came and you changed directory
> to your home directory? that's what cygwin.bat does.
Actually, if you try that command in C:\cygwin\bin, as the OP apparently
did in the quote above, nothing will happen, because the batch file lives in
the parent directory.
cheers,
DaveK
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