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From: "Daisuke Aoyama" <jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: djgpp bash under NT 4.0
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 08:15:18 +0900
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Martin wrote:
>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
>(I know how to create these files, create an icon and set the properties
>which will call these up upon execution). I tried making a config.sys with
>SHELL=C:\DJGPP\BIN\BASH.EXE but this caused only a brief blank screen
>before returning me to the NT windows screen.
>
>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 :-(

Simple way to run bash is double-click batch file.
If bsh1147b.zip has no batch file and startup files, please get later
version. (see announcement of latest version)
You need create home directory and copy sample files there and edit
boot.bat appropriately. (I use shortcut of batch file on the desktop)

BTW did you download file/sh/textutils? If no, get them before using
bash. You also need other packages like awk, grep, sed...

Daisuke Aoyama
jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp