Bernd Bartmann wrote: [snip] > Now comes the weird part. I created a new file hello.c in my home dir > with vim. ls -al shows that the file exists, but "more hello.c" gives > no output at all. I just get a new shell prompt.
This is going to sound strange but, which more are you running? There is Windows' own more, and package util-linux's more, which is the one you expected but perhaps didn't install. Does `cat hello.c` work? Does `less hello.c` work? > The same problem > exits when I run "gcc hello.c -o hello". Nothing happens, not even an > error message is displayed and no file hello is created. The parameter "-o hello" actually produces hello.exe, does that file exist? > Also, I don't get a colored shell prompt, but only a $ sign. > > Any clues? `echo $PS1` shows how your prompt is defined, I think I have the default setting and get this result: $ echo $PS1 \[\033]0;\w\007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ If you get anything else that means that you changed it, somewhere in your bash initialization files (.bashrc, .bash_profile, etc.) -- René Berber -- 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/
