Cygwin default installation: command not found‏

2010-04-06 Thread Matthijs Nescio
Hi, Cygwin is terrific software. I use it all the time. However, I found a strange installation problem that I want to share with you. I have a brand new image of WinXP on my system. This image is company provided. I got it only this morning and I installed some software since; notepad++,

Re: Cygwin default installation: command not found‏

2010-04-06 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 4/6/2010 6:34 AM, Matthijs Nescio wrote: [snip] When downloading cygwin by its install program, it stalled. I tried again a few times. Eventually, Cygwin got installed. When I typed simple commands like ls or cp, the standard answer of the shell would be command not found. I could solve it

Re: Cygwin default installation: command not found‏

2010-04-06 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 4/6/2010 6:38 AM, Morgan Gangwere wrote: [snip-snip] An Aside: avoid sending personal messages; We'll be civil just as long as you try :) I start cygwin from the bat file. I have a button for it in the Quick launch toolbar, but I verified that it calls the bat file. If I rename the

Re: Cygwin default installation: command not found‏

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
On 06/04/2010 14:56, Morgan Gangwere wrote: On 4/6/2010 6:38 AM, Morgan Gangwere wrote: I've looked through the logfiles that Mr. Nescio has provided and found a few lines that look messed up: There are quite a few instances of this 8-- setup.log.full -% 2010/04/06

Re: Cygwin default installation: command not found‏

2010-04-06 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Dave Korn dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com wrote: On 06/04/2010 14:56, Morgan Gangwere wrote: On 4/6/2010 6:38 AM, Morgan Gangwere wrote: I've looked through the logfiles that Mr. Nescio has provided and found a few lines that look messed up: There are quite