----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Wagner"
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> Actually the Cygwin commands are independent exe's and don't have to be
run
> from any certain shell.  I run cygwin commands from cmd.exe all the time.
> The key difference is that they act and return output in the context of
the
> cygwin system.  But it's not too hard to flip /c/perl/bin/perl into
> c:\perl\bin\perl in ur mind.  But for the most part they act just like any
> other shell app.
>

Interesting - I don't have Cygwin, but I do have an msys shell (which is,
roughly speaking, a derivative of Cygwin's shell). It has a 'which' command,
but that works only in the msys shell. If I execute it from a cmd.exe shell
it just hangs and renders the cmd shell unresponsive.

There are, of course, other msys commands that are independent exe's - and
they can be run from any shell.

Cheers,
Rob

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