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Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 19:53:31 -0500
To: cygwin AT claymccoy DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: commands not found
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At 07:51 PM 12/5/2004, you wrote:
>First I'd like to say that I am sorry for having to ask this.  But I have
>searched the site, read the faqs and documentation, and poked around the
>directory structure and I am still at a loss.
>Basically I just can't use any of the commands.  'cd' and 'pwd' seem to work,
>but 'ls' and even 'man' don't.  Most things that I want to use I am told that
>the command is not found.
>I can go to the /bin direcotry and type ./ls, and it works.  So I guess that
>maybe my path is not right.  The path in the /usr/etc/default/etc/profile is
>sufficient.  And this is the only place that I can find the .bashrc files and such.
>What do I need to do?  And why would this functionality not be there from the
>beginning.  It shouldn't be this hard to make this work.  I must be doing
>something stupid.
>Thanks in advance

Start here:

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