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They are shortcut style symlinks. See https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks > Console2          a2ping             a5toa4            adhocfilelist > amstex            arara              arlatex           authorindex > bibexport         bundledoc          cachepic          chkweb > cron_diagnose.sh  ctanify            ctanupload        de-macro > dtxgen            dviasm             dvigif            dvilj6 Most of these come from TeX Live. I tried searching for some of the others (such as Console2) at https://cygwin.com/packages/ and they are not in the current Cygwin distro. I don't know why you still have them. > So why are these in the /bin directory since they don't > work on the command line (like in BASH). Cygwin should recognize them as symlinks. > So why would ".lnk" files be used in cygwin packages since they don't > work under cygwin, but are 'explorer' links. What happens if you type 'amstex --help' in a Cygwin shell? Ken