On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Barry Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Nearly all commands appear to complete without doing anything. > This includes "ls", "cat", "vi". > The following commands work properly: > echo > true > false ($? == 1) > dirs > if...then.fi > test
That I can address: they are shell builtins. That is, they are recognized by bash and processed by the bash program itself without forking or otherwise involving another process. I find it hard to imagine that anything in bash could work if those commands didn't. Since you just installed Cygwin and didn't configure it much, have you considered just uninstalling and reinstalling from a new mirror? -- Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/
