Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Fractal A." Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash dos References: <20011221201935.41425.qmail@web12201.mail.yahoo.com> From: Andrew Markebo Date: 21 Dec 2001 21:32:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20011221201935.41425.qmail@web12201.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii / "Fractal A." wrote: | Hi, | | Is there a way to run cygwin from a regular dos prompt? Must I log in to the | bash shell in order to use the stuff (like g++ flex bison) in cygwin? No you don't need to, just put c:\cygwin\bin or wherever you can find the binaries, in your global path. A small but though, you need to be careful when you throw paths at the tools, they want unix-paths, separated by /, not \, and they probably don't understand drive-letters. /Andy -- The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/