From: Nathan Phillips <nathan AT ug2 DOT sthughs DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: djgpp bash under NT 4.0
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 17:55:05 +0000
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On Sun, 16 Feb 1997 martin AT fieldhouse DOT com wrote:

> If I double click the C:\Djgpp\bin\bash.exe file in Explorer, I get a
> MS-DOS window with a  'bash$'  prompt but it recognizes no Unix commands
> such as ls, w, cd .. etc. The only command it accepts is 'exit' - a
> recognized DOS command I suspect :-(
No, exit is one of the few commands built into bash (set, alias, ... are
others - see man bash under unix for details).
ls is a seperate program.
cd shouldn't be though.