From: Andy Eskilsson <x-aes AT telelogic DOT se>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: djgpp bash under NT 4.0
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Date: 18 Feb 1997 11:01:00 +0100
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/ martin AT fieldhouse DOT com wrote:
| Thanks to the kind help of Mr. John M. Aldrich, I currently have all
| required files downloaded, extracted and installed on my NT 4.0 Intel
| system - 64Mb, 133Mhz, 4Gb HD, plenty of resources.
| 
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Here's what I downloaded:
|  v2/djdev201.zip     (development environment)
|  v2gnu/bsh1147b.zip  (GNU bash shell)
|  v2gnu/bnu27b.zip    (GNU Binutils)
|  v2gnu/gcc2721b.zip  (gcc compiler)
|  v2gnu/gpp2721b.zip  (g++ compiler)
|  v2gnu/lgp271b.zip   (C++ libraries)
|  v2/faq210b.zip      (FAQ list)
|  v2gnu/gdb416b.zip   (GNU debugger)

You also need the fileutils to be able to do ls.

| My problem now is that I do not know how to run the Bash shell :-( I have
| downloaded and read what I believe to be the correct FAQ's, as well as
| those that came with the distributions. It is my understanding that
| certain environment variables must be set in Autoexec.bat and Config.sys

Nope you can set them in ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash-profile :-) (Uhm where
is $HOME if you can't set it.. c:/ I believe)

Doesn't NT have someplace in the control-panel where you can set such
environment variables, and these are later used in a ms-dos window,
and from there to your bash-window??

| 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 :-(

Yep they can be found in the fileutils package if my memory isn't
totally out in the cyberspace.

| 1. Run a Unix shell

Well hopefully this would solve it.

	/Andy