Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Ben]

Removed my HTML to send this off...

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From: Ben <ben@pacificu.edu>
Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:14 AM
Subject: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows
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The Ubuntu help says that if you download Cygwin (link:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM), you can follow the
Linux directions. I'm using the Cygwin shell and it is not working. I
downloaded the file to C. I type:

cd C:\

So far, so good. The (zippied) file ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso is
sitting in C:\. So I type:

md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso

"No such file or directory."

Ah well. Cygwin does not seem to be a very newbie-friendly
application. "Help cd" offers one a starkly technical little
paragraph. Incidentally, how does one even go to the Desktop directory
(which lies at C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Desktop for me) with
Cygwin? Whenever you put in a space, Cygwin seems to reject it.

- Ben

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Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:42:49PM -0700, Ben wrote:
>Removed my HTML to send this off...

It is not important for anyone to know this.

>The Ubuntu help says that if you download Cygwin (link:
>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM), you can follow the
>Linux directions. I'm using the Cygwin shell and it is not working. I
>downloaded the file to C. I type:
>
>cd C:\
>
>So far, so good. The (zippied) file ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso is
>sitting in C:\. So I type:
>
>md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
>
>"No such file or directory."
>
>Ah well. Cygwin does not seem to be a very newbie-friendly
>application. "Help cd" offers one a starkly technical little
>paragraph. Incidentally, how does one even go to the Desktop directory
>(which lies at C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Desktop for me) with
>Cygwin? Whenever you put in a space, Cygwin seems to reject it.

Hmm.  Just got a similar question on irc a while ago.

Cygwin doesn't use : or \.  Use:

cd "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Ben/Desktop"

And, btw, your "newbie-friendly" comment shows that you apparently have
no idea what Cygwin is and possibly have no idea what Linux is all
about.  The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
environment.  If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
dabbling with Ubuntu.

cgf

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Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Greg Chicares]

On 2008-06-23 21:42Z, Ben wrote:
> 
> The Ubuntu help says that if you download Cygwin (link:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM), you can follow the
> Linux directions. I'm using the Cygwin shell and it is not working. I

If all you want to do is check the md5sum of one file, then you'll
probably find it easier to download a program that does only that.
Here's a link that was definitely working a month or two ago:

http://downloads.activestate.com/contrib/md5sum/Windows/md5sum.exe#!md5!eb574b236133e60c989c6f472f07827b

and that program doesn't require Cygwin at all.

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Re: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Matt Wozniski]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Ben wrote:
> md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso

it's "ubuntu", not "ubutuntu", so it's not surprising it didn't work...

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[gold star] Re: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 02:54:48PM -0400, Matt Wozniski wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Ben wrote:
>> md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
>
>it's "ubuntu", not "ubutuntu", so it's not surprising it didn't work...

Yeah, boy is Cygwin unfriendly or what?  I mean how long have spell
checkers been around?

Can we get a gold star over here for the only person who noticed what
should have been obvious?

cgf

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Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Ben]

"The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
environment.  If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
dabbling with Ubuntu."

If I don't understand UNIX, then it's hard to see why I'm dabbling
with Ubuntu? Is that a mistype? Did you mean to say that it's easy to
see why I'm dabbling with Ubuntu, as it is generally thought to be a
newbie-friendly distro? Is there a more approachable way to understand
UNIX?

It's no wonder that Linux has roughly 1% desktop market share with
that sort of attitude. Unfortunately, Ubuntu doesn't even display
right on my laptop, so it'll be a while yet before I do understand
Linux.

- B

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Christopher Faylor
<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:42:49PM -0700, Ben wrote:
>>Removed my HTML to send this off...
>
> It is not important for anyone to know this.
>
>>The Ubuntu help says that if you download Cygwin (link:
>>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM), you can follow the
>>Linux directions. I'm using the Cygwin shell and it is not working. I
>>downloaded the file to C. I type:
>>
>>cd C:\
>>
>>So far, so good. The (zippied) file ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso is
>>sitting in C:\. So I type:
>>
>>md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
>>
>>"No such file or directory."
>>
>>Ah well. Cygwin does not seem to be a very newbie-friendly
>>application. "Help cd" offers one a starkly technical little
>>paragraph. Incidentally, how does one even go to the Desktop directory
>>(which lies at C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Desktop for me) with
>>Cygwin? Whenever you put in a space, Cygwin seems to reject it.
>
> Hmm.  Just got a similar question on irc a while ago.
>
> Cygwin doesn't use : or \.  Use:
>
> cd "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Ben/Desktop"
>
> And, btw, your "newbie-friendly" comment shows that you apparently have
> no idea what Cygwin is and possibly have no idea what Linux is all
> about.  The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
> environment.  If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
> dabbling with Ubuntu.
>
> cgf
>
>

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Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:43:39PM -0700, Ben wrote:
>"The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
>environment.  If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
>dabbling with Ubuntu."
>
>If I don't understand UNIX, then it's hard to see why I'm dabbling
>with Ubuntu? Is that a mistype? Did you mean to say that it's easy to
>see why I'm dabbling with Ubuntu, as it is generally thought to be a
>newbie-friendly distro? Is there a more approachable way to understand
>UNIX?
>
>It's no wonder that Linux has roughly 1% desktop market share with
>that sort of attitude. Unfortunately, Ubuntu doesn't even display
>right on my laptop, so it'll be a while yet before I do understand
>Linux.

Wow!  Zing!

cgf

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Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Ben]

Also: thanks for the answer. It actually doesn't really matter, and
maybe it is unnecessary for Cygwin to bother catering towards people
without UNIX experience at all. They probably should be avoiding it
until after they've had some experience with Linux.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Ben <ben@pacificu.edu> wrote:
> "The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
> environment.  If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
> dabbling with Ubuntu."
>
> If I don't understand UNIX, then it's hard to see why I'm dabbling
> with Ubuntu? Is that a mistype? Did you mean to say that it's easy to
> see why I'm dabbling with Ubuntu, as it is generally thought to be a
> newbie-friendly distro? Is there a more approachable way to understand
> UNIX?
>
> It's no wonder that Linux has roughly 1% desktop market share with
> that sort of attitude. Unfortunately, Ubuntu doesn't even display
> right on my laptop, so it'll be a while yet before I do understand
> Linux.
>
> - B
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Christopher Faylor
> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:42:49PM -0700, Ben wrote:
>>>Removed my HTML to send this off...
>>
>> It is not important for anyone to know this.
>>
>>>The Ubuntu help says that if you download Cygwin (link:
>>>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM), you can follow the
>>>Linux directions. I'm using the Cygwin shell and it is not working. I
>>>downloaded the file to C. I type:
>>>
>>>cd C:\
>>>
>>>So far, so good. The (zippied) file ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso is
>>>sitting in C:\. So I type:
>>>
>>>md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
>>>
>>>"No such file or directory."
>>>
>>>Ah well. Cygwin does not seem to be a very newbie-friendly
>>>application. "Help cd" offers one a starkly technical little
>>>paragraph. Incidentally, how does one even go to the Desktop directory
>>>(which lies at C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Desktop for me) with
>>>Cygwin? Whenever you put in a space, Cygwin seems to reject it.
>>
>> Hmm.  Just got a similar question on irc a while ago.
>>
>> Cygwin doesn't use : or \.  Use:
>>
>> cd "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Ben/Desktop"
>>
>> And, btw, your "newbie-friendly" comment shows that you apparently have
>> no idea what Cygwin is and possibly have no idea what Linux is all
>> about.  The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
>> environment.  If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
>> dabbling with Ubuntu.
>>
>> cgf
>>
>>
>

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Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Paul Newell]

"Wow!  Zing!" ???

Hum ...

I would think a simple "yes, understanding Unix/Linux before dealing 
with Cygwin" would have been a bit more professional .. or, probably 
more to the point, encouraging one to pursue learning Unix/Linux.

Regarding his comment of Ubuntu being "newbie-friendly", I live in a 
RH/Fedora world and I was advised by Linux folks I respect to not try to 
bring my own system up under Ubuntu as it would confuse me since I am a 
programmer and not a sysAdmin guru. I'm not advocating RH/Fedora, but 
flavors on Linux are important and following this post gives me the 
sense that Cygwin is RH based (underscored by 
http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/). Hence, that might be a better 
model towards his understanding Linux and then Cygwin.

Paul
(the person who might be referred to in cgf's "Hmm.  Just got a similar 
question on irc a while ago.Cygwin doesn't use : or \." (23jun08, same 
thread) which may be fundamental but still a necessary learning 
experience by doing wrong and being corrected ... twice)

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:43:39PM -0700, Ben wrote:
>   
>> "The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
>> environment.  If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
>> dabbling with Ubuntu."
>>
>> If I don't understand UNIX, then it's hard to see why I'm dabbling
>> with Ubuntu? Is that a mistype? Did you mean to say that it's easy to
>> see why I'm dabbling with Ubuntu, as it is generally thought to be a
>> newbie-friendly distro? Is there a more approachable way to understand
>> UNIX?
>>
>> It's no wonder that Linux has roughly 1% desktop market share with
>> that sort of attitude. Unfortunately, Ubuntu doesn't even display
>> right on my laptop, so it'll be a while yet before I do understand
>> Linux.
>>     
>
> Wow!  Zing!
>
> cgf
>
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Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:31:58PM -0700, Paul Newell wrote:
> "Wow!  Zing!" ???
>
> Hum ...
>
>I would think a simple "yes, understanding Unix/Linux before dealing
>with Cygwin" would have been a bit more professional ..  or, probably
>more to the point, encouraging one to pursue learning Unix/Linux.

think "Wow! Zing!" was not anyone trying to be professional or
encouraging.  I very much do not care what version of Linux someone uses
and do not care if someone learns Unix.  I do think that people should
spend a modicum of time familiarizing themselves with something before
offering criticisms, suggestions, or advice, however.  If they can't be
bothered to do that, and want to lecture or criticize, they should be
prepared not to be taken very seriously.

Oh and FYI, this isn't paid support and no one here has to make any
effort whatsoever to be "professional".

>Regarding his comment of Ubuntu being "newbie-friendly", I live in a
>RH/Fedora world and I was advised by Linux folks I respect to not try
>to bring my own system up under Ubuntu as it would confuse me since I
>am a programmer and not a sysAdmin guru.  I'm not advocating RH/Fedora,
>but flavors on Linux are important and following this post gives me the
>sense that Cygwin is RH based (underscored by
>http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/).  Hence, that might be a better
>model towards his understanding Linux and then Cygwin.

You're wrong.  You're using software from http://cygwin.com/ .  It is not
"RH based" in any way.  I use Ubuntu and Gentoo on the systems where I
develop Cygwin.  Some package developers possibly don't have any Linux
system whatsoever.

As far as actual code in Cygwin is concerned, you could make the case that
if Cygwin is "based" on anything it would be FreeBSD, not Linux.

You seem to be missing the point that the only reason the OP downloaded
Cygwin was to install Ubuntu.

>(the person who might be referred to in cgf's "Hmm.  Just got a similar
>question on irc a while ago.Cygwin doesn't use : or \." (23jun08, same
>thread) which may be fundamental but still a necessary learning
>experience by doing wrong and being corrected ...  twice)

Your confusion about /cygdrive was in email, not irc.  If you really
were the person who was asking on irc that would qualify as being
confused four times since I had to repeat myself there at least twice.

cgf

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Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Paul Newell]

My thanks for offering the "if Cygwin is based on anything it would be 
FreeBSD, not Linux". I took the link I posted too literally.

There was no point to be missed in OP's purpose as I couldn't have cared 
less what his purpose was.

Though I still dislike "Wow! Zing!", I agree with your stated reasons 
excluding not caring if someone learns Unix (and allow me to alter your 
sentence to include Linux). You're not paid, this is all volunteer, I 
would think you'd want folks to learn it as all your free labor is in 
support of folks that have vested in that workflow. But you are right to 
say that if you want to play in the game, you gotta invest in learning 
the rules. So maybe "Wow!" clears that bar.

I consider this thread closed with a thanks for your replying..

Next time I send an email, it will be after I have hopefully done due 
"modicum of time" (this is meant seriously with respect to the nature of 
the email forum, not as a slight as the quotes might mistakenly imply).

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:31:58PM -0700, Paul Newell wrote:
>   
>> "Wow!  Zing!" ???
>>
>> Hum ...
>>
>> I would think a simple "yes, understanding Unix/Linux before dealing
>> with Cygwin" would have been a bit more professional ..  or, probably
>> more to the point, encouraging one to pursue learning Unix/Linux.
>>     
>
> think "Wow! Zing!" was not anyone trying to be professional or
> encouraging.  I very much do not care what version of Linux someone uses
> and do not care if someone learns Unix.  I do think that people should
> spend a modicum of time familiarizing themselves with something before
> offering criticisms, suggestions, or advice, however.  If they can't be
> bothered to do that, and want to lecture or criticize, they should be
> prepared not to be taken very seriously.
>
> Oh and FYI, this isn't paid support and no one here has to make any
> effort whatsoever to be "professional".
>
>   
>> Regarding his comment of Ubuntu being "newbie-friendly", I live in a
>> RH/Fedora world and I was advised by Linux folks I respect to not try
>> to bring my own system up under Ubuntu as it would confuse me since I
>> am a programmer and not a sysAdmin guru.  I'm not advocating RH/Fedora,
>> but flavors on Linux are important and following this post gives me the
>> sense that Cygwin is RH based (underscored by
>> http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/).  Hence, that might be a better
>> model towards his understanding Linux and then Cygwin.
>>     
>
> You're wrong.  You're using software from http://cygwin.com/ .  It is not
> "RH based" in any way.  I use Ubuntu and Gentoo on the systems where I
> develop Cygwin.  Some package developers possibly don't have any Linux
> system whatsoever.
>
> As far as actual code in Cygwin is concerned, you could make the case that
> if Cygwin is "based" on anything it would be FreeBSD, not Linux.
>
> You seem to be missing the point that the only reason the OP downloaded
> Cygwin was to install Ubuntu.
>
>   
>> (the person who might be referred to in cgf's "Hmm.  Just got a similar
>> question on irc a while ago.Cygwin doesn't use : or \." (23jun08, same
>> thread) which may be fundamental but still a necessary learning
>> experience by doing wrong and being corrected ...  twice)
>>     
>
> Your confusion about /cygdrive was in email, not irc.  If you really
> were the person who was asking on irc that would qualify as being
> confused four times since I had to repeat myself there at least twice.
>
> cgf
>
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Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Brian Mathis]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Christopher Faylor
<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> think "Wow! Zing!" was not anyone trying to be professional or
> encouraging.  I very much do not care what version of Linux someone uses
> and do not care if someone learns Unix.  I do think that people should
> spend a modicum of time familiarizing themselves with something before
> offering criticisms, suggestions, or advice, however.  If they can't be
> bothered to do that, and want to lecture or criticize, they should be
> prepared not to be taken very seriously.
>

I _also_ think people should spend a modicum of time familiarizing
themselves with something before using it, especially when it allows
them to communicate with others of the human race.  One should, before
attempting to communicate with others, become well-versed in skills
like "common courtesy", "politeness", and "how not to be an a**hole".

It's also useful if people remember that at one point they did not
know anything, and had to learn things.  It would also be good for
them to remember that all knowledge comes from other people, and
anything they learned was once taught to them by another person, be it
through direct communication or recorded media.

In addition, a bit of time should be spent thinking about the effect
that ignoring these rules might have on someone else who is starting
down a path of knowledge and learning, and how a member of that
community's response might forever damage the education and perception
said new person will have about that community.


While one may not always strive to be professional, one should always
strive to be human.

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Re: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[pierluca.masala]

Try to put a backslash before every space:

Documents\ and\ Settings

and take care to respect lower and upper cases.
Bye

On 6/23/08, Ben <ben@pacificu.edu> wrote:
> Here <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM>, the Ubuntu help says
> that if you download Cygwin, you can follow the Linux directions. I'm using
> the Cygwin shell and it is not working. I downloaded the file to C. I type:
>
> cd C:\
>
> So far, so good. The (zippied) file ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso is
> sitting in C:\. So I type:
>
> md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
>
> "No such file or directory."
>
> Ah well. Cygwin does not seem to be a very newbie-friendly application.
> "Help cd" offers one a starkly technical little paragraph. Incidentally, how
> does one even go to the Desktop directory (which lies at C:\Documents and
> Settings\Ben\Desktop for me) with Cygwin? Whenever you put in a space,
> Cygwin seems to reject it.
>
> - Ben
>

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Re: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Phil Bull]

Hi Ben,

There's a full user guide available on the Cygwin site that you may find
useful:

http://cygwin.com/docs.html

This should offer much more detail than "help cd". There's also a
quick-start guide:

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-ex-win.html

Thanks,

Phil

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Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:17:25PM -0600, Brian Mathis wrote:
>I _also_ think people should spend a modicum of time familiarizing
>themselves with something before using it, especially when it allows
>them to communicate with others of the human race.  One should, before
>attempting to communicate with others, become well-versed in skills
>like "common courtesy", "politeness", and "how not to be an a**hole".

Wow!  Er, ah, oh nevermind.

cgf

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Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Zheng Li]

Ben wrote:
> "The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
> environment.  If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
> dabbling with Ubuntu."
>
> If I don't understand UNIX, then it's hard to see why I'm dabbling
> with Ubuntu? Is that a mistype? Did you mean to say that it's easy to
> see why I'm dabbling with Ubuntu, as it is generally thought to be a
> newbie-friendly distro? Is there a more approachable way to understand
> UNIX?
>
> It's no wonder that Linux has roughly 1% desktop market share with
> that sort of attitude. Unfortunately, Ubuntu doesn't even display
> right on my laptop, so it'll be a while yet before I do understand
> Linux.
>
> - B
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Christopher Faylor
> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:42:49PM -0700, Ben wrote:
>>     
>>> Removed my HTML to send this off...
>>>       
>> It is not important for anyone to know this.
>>
>>     
>>> The Ubuntu help says that if you download Cygwin (link:
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM), you can follow the
>>> Linux directions. I'm using the Cygwin shell and it is not working. I
>>> downloaded the file to C. I type:
>>>
>>> cd C:\
>>>
>>> So far, so good. The (zippied) file ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso is
>>> sitting in C:\. So I type:
>>>
>>> md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
>>>
>>> "No such file or directory."
>>>
>>> Ah well. Cygwin does not seem to be a very newbie-friendly
>>> application. "Help cd" offers one a starkly technical little
>>> paragraph. Incidentally, how does one even go to the Desktop directory
>>> (which lies at C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Desktop for me) with
>>> Cygwin? Whenever you put in a space, Cygwin seems to reject it.
>>>       
>> Hmm.  Just got a similar question on irc a while ago.
>>
>> Cygwin doesn't use : or \.  Use:
>>
>> cd "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Ben/Desktop"
>>
>> And, btw, your "newbie-friendly" comment shows that you apparently have
>> no idea what Cygwin is and possibly have no idea what Linux is all
>> about.  The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
>> environment.  If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
>> dabbling with Ubuntu.
>>
>> cgf
>>
>>
>>     
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then you may waste of your valuable times and totally loss your 
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read a book and just learn it, like what you do in other computer 
lessons.  Linux expects you as a master
and this assumption may be harmful to newbies. Fortunately, after a 
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your linux system to do lots of things windows can't do.
Yours
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Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Robert Pendell]

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Zheng Li wrote:
| Ben wrote:
|> "The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
|> environment.  If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
|> dabbling with Ubuntu."
|>
|> If I don't understand UNIX, then it's hard to see why I'm dabbling
|> with Ubuntu? Is that a mistype? Did you mean to say that it's easy to
|> see why I'm dabbling with Ubuntu, as it is generally thought to be a
|> newbie-friendly distro? Is there a more approachable way to understand
|> UNIX?
|>
|> It's no wonder that Linux has roughly 1% desktop market share with
|> that sort of attitude. Unfortunately, Ubuntu doesn't even display
|> right on my laptop, so it'll be a while yet before I do understand
|> Linux.
|>
|> - B
|>
|> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Christopher Faylor
|> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
|>
|>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:42:49PM -0700, Ben wrote:
|>>
|>>> Removed my HTML to send this off...
|>>>
|>> It is not important for anyone to know this.
|>>
|>>
|>>> The Ubuntu help says that if you download Cygwin (link:
|>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM), you can follow the
|>>> Linux directions. I'm using the Cygwin shell and it is not working. I
|>>> downloaded the file to C. I type:
|>>>
|>>> cd C:\
|>>>
|>>> So far, so good. The (zippied) file ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso is
|>>> sitting in C:\. So I type:
|>>>
|>>> md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
|>>>
|>>> "No such file or directory."
|>>>
|>>> Ah well. Cygwin does not seem to be a very newbie-friendly
|>>> application. "Help cd" offers one a starkly technical little
|>>> paragraph. Incidentally, how does one even go to the Desktop directory
|>>> (which lies at C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Desktop for me) with
|>>> Cygwin? Whenever you put in a space, Cygwin seems to reject it.
|>>>
|>> Hmm.  Just got a similar question on irc a while ago.
|>>
|>> Cygwin doesn't use : or \.  Use:
|>>
|>> cd "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Ben/Desktop"
|>>
|>> And, btw, your "newbie-friendly" comment shows that you apparently have
|>> no idea what Cygwin is and possibly have no idea what Linux is all
|>> about.  The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
|>> environment.  If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
|>> dabbling with Ubuntu.
|>>
|>> cgf
|>>
|>>
|>>
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| Well, if you use linux system in a MS windows style where clicking
| buttons can almost solve everything,
| then you may waste of your valuable times and totally loss your
| confidence on Linux.  You need to
| read a book and just learn it, like what you do in other computer
| lessons.  Linux expects you as a master
| and this assumption may be harmful to newbies. Fortunately, after a
| shape learning line, you can control
| your linux system to do lots of things windows can't do.
| Yours
| Zheng
|

I don't think that any linux user expects anyone else to be a master of
it but be rather knowledgable about what they are going into prior to
jumping in.  There are some really bad and stupid questions to be had
out there.  I know because I have answered some and only shook my head
while doing so.

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Re: [gold star] Re: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

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Christopher Faylor wrote:
| On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 02:54:48PM -0400, Matt Wozniski wrote:
|> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Ben wrote:
|>> md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
|> it's "ubuntu", not "ubutuntu", so it's not surprising it didn't work...
|
| Yeah, boy is Cygwin unfriendly or what?  I mean how long have spell
| checkers been around?
|
| Can we get a gold star over here for the only person who noticed what
| should have been obvious?
|
| cgf
|

Geeze.  Even I missed that one and I spot the hard ones in alot of
things.  I agree on the gold star.

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