Most of the internal "compiled Lisp functio" commands work correctly, but standard UNIX commands don't. Here is an example:
/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/harryr $ w Opening input file: No such file or directory, /usr/bin/w /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/harryr $ w.exe 09:19:56 up 15:59, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT harryr tty0 08:51 0.00s 0.00s 0.15s -bash harryr tty1 08:51 0.00s 0.00s 0.06s bash /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/harryr $ which w /usr/bin/w /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/harryr $ which w.exe /usr/bin/w.exe -- 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/