Hey Ben!   
      
    BR> For CygWin v1.7 it shows gcc 3.4.4, perl 5.10.1, bash 4.1.10   
      
   That sounds doable.  The version of bash is fairly recent and thus   
   the shorthand example ought to work fine.  Never have written a bash   
   script for a MS enviroment ever.  Let's see if this works from the   
   bash prompt;   
      
     perl -e 'print "Please do not adjust your set.\n"'   
      
   I am not sure if you need to add the path to perl in the above.   
   If that works then we are in business.  I have one bash FTN function   
   that may require a bit of jiggery-pokery but offhand I am guessing   
   it won't as I did refine it a tad to make it backwards compatible.   
   I originally wrote it to take advantage of newer functionality of bash   
   4.2 and then changed my mind and rewrote it to more old school bash.   
      
    BR> Hmmm...have to check those out, thanks   
      
   I am just looking at the source as we speak and noted that there are   
   makefiles geared for cygwin.  Looks to be doable.  I'd recommend the   
   minimum to be huskybse, huskylib, smapi, fidoconf, areafix and hpt.   
   These will provide everything, and then some.  No editor but your   
   golded should work fine with the archives it will create.  Personally I   
   only use pktinfo these days and only to verify inbound and outbound   
   pkt's but still have them close at hand.  If I were still running a   
   node I would definetly use them more than I currently do.   
      
   Do you have tar, gzip and wget handy?  If not then I'd STRONGLY   
   suggest getting these tools before tackling the rest.  Having these   
   tools available will make this vastly less painful.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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