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Re: newbie shell-users howto, guide, cheatsheet, or reference?


on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:31:40PM +0100, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> on Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:55:17PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) (garbage_collector@telia.com) wrote:
> > > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> > > Of Karsten M. Self
> > 
> > >    - The shell.  Bash.
> > >    - Directories.  '/' rather than '\'.  Cygwin naming conventions.
> > >      Accessing legacy MS Windows paths.
> > >    - Essential commands.  Likely:  ls, cd, pwd, rm, less, cat.
> > >    - Getting help.  man, apropos.
> > 
> >  IIRC there is a HOWTO with a certain Linux distro (they use a Red Hat as a
> > logo ;) that should fulfill at least part of your needs (can't remember the
> > name right now... MSDOS-HOWTO?).
> 
> Useful, but not sufficiently focused.
> 
> Given my research and responses (both on and off list), I'll be putting
> together something shortly at http://twiki.iwethey.org/, which the
> Cygwin project will be free to use.

For better or worse, started as:

    http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/CygwinEndUserQuickReference


Peace.

-- 
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>        http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
 What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
  Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute.
      http://sco.iwethey.org/

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