From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10171 invoked by alias); 26 Sep 2003 23:21:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 10161 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2003 23:21:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO domain-mail.inreach.com) (209.142.2.37) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 2003 23:21:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 27752 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2003 23:21:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO w2k30g) (209.142.39.228) by domain-mail.inreach.com with SMTP; 26 Sep 2003 23:21:52 -0000 Message-ID: <015701c38484$e9136de0$0a01a8c0@w2k30g> From: "David Christensen" To: References: Subject: Re: papers Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:23:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg01714.txt.bz2 cygwin@cygwin.com: Cristina Fischer wrote: > I am posgraduatio (master degrree) in Brazil I would like use cygwin > so that I can create simulation network > I am new programmer using cygwin. I would like to get > 1. when I can get download software cygwin to environment windows 2000 > 2. I would like to know about configurate my hardware(setup) to run > cywin > manual and so on Understand that Cygwin is a port of the GNU software tool suite to Windows. It includes many programs, including shells, editors, interpreters, compilers, linkers, etc.. If you are familiar with GNU/Linux and the Bash shell, it should be a comfortable environment. If not, I recommend that you read the following books: Cameron Newham & Bill Rosenblatt, 1998, "Learning the Bash Shell", 2 ed., O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN 1-56592-347-2. Jerry Peek, Grace Todino, & John Strang, 1998, "Learning the UNIX Operating System", 4 ed., O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN 1-56592-390-1. Cygwin works fine on Windows 2000 (what I use). To get Cygwin onto a Windows computer, I first download the Cygwin Setup program from: http://www.cygwin.com/ Look for the icon labeled "Install or update now! (using setup.exe)". Download setup.exe to your hard disk. I recommend the following location (create directories as necessary): C:\cygwin\setup\setup.exe Next, read the instructions for using Cygwin Setup: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html I prefer to download packages from the Internet and then install them. This requires running Cygwin Setup twice -- once to download the packages and a second time to install the packages. There is also a third option for installing directly from the Internet, but having the packages on your hard drive can be useful from time to time. I also prefer to download and install only the base packages first. I have Cygwin Setup create the Start menu and desktop icons on this pass. I then "test drive" Cygwin and make any necessary adjustments (.bashrc, .bash_profile, .vimrc, .inputrc, etc.). I then repeat the download/install process for whatever other packages I want. I skip the icon creation process. For your programming needs, you will likely want to download and install packages in the "Development" category. As for manuals, I mostly use the Cygwin Bash shell. Thus, "man" and "info" are what I use the most. You may also find HTML documentation on the web and/or in the Cygwin installation tree (look under C:\cygwin\usr\doc\). HTH, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/