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chere

This program allows you to create a Bash Prompt Here speed menu item in Windows Explorer. To install it, start a cygwin terminal as an administrator (or else you'll receive a message about "Hive not writeable", and type: 
chere -i

Interesting libraries

  • inetutils - contains telnet + others

    Rebasing

    If you start to get weird execution problems and fatal errors, then it is time to rebase cygwin:
    1. Close all cygwin shells
    2. Run: C:\cygwin\bin\ash.exe
    3. /bin/rebaseall
    4. Also try: /bin/peflagsall

    X

    X is integrated in with cygwin. You should install packages xinit. That seems sufficient. To get the server to run at startup, put the "XWin Server" shortcut in Startup. For convenience, I have put a copy of this shortcut in tacc/cygwin.

    Links to other sites

  • packages - Cygwin package list. Lists all available packages, and package contents are searchable by regular expression.
  • ports - unofficial projects 
    Author:  Mark Carter
Created: 01-Oct-2011
Updated: 07-Feb-2012