Ok, I guess something else must've gone wrong because I don't have a cygwin.bat 
file. Thanks for your help, I'll try completely deleting everything and then 
re-installing it.

-----Original Message-----

> Date: Mon May 02 13:57:35 PDT 2005
> From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Problem with cygwin setup
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>
> jds wrote:
> 
> > Maybe I don't understand you, or your don't understand me, or I'm just 
> > clueless, but what I really want to know is how to run cygwin now that it's 
> > installed, given that I don't have an icon on my desktop. I dunno, isn't 
> > the icon just a shortcut to some .exe, or is it something else? Thanks for 
> > your help, but I really didn't know what to do with that big thing that you 
> > copied for me.
> 
> There should be a cygwin.bat in the directory you choose to install to;
> just run that.
> 
> Alternatively, open a command prompt:
> 
> cd \cygwin\bin  # or whatever your location is
> bash -li
> 
> To run any postinstall scripts that did not complete, do the following
> from the bash prompt:
> 
> cd /etc/postinstall
> for F in *.sh; do . $F && mv $F $F.done; done
> 
> Brian
> 
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