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Re: bash dos


/ "Fractal A." <fractala@yahoo.com> 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

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