If you don't already have unix projects, use Developers Studio as the best way to get yourself going. The important thing to remember is that it's an interface sitting on top of Windows 2000. The cygwin default is the bash shell. Looks for .bashrc in home directory. Looks for .tcshrc in your home directory.
Some man pages available with commercial version installed on login nodes.
Note that this is a conflict with the NT command prompt, where type is equivalent to the unix command cat . The more command is not present in either shell, but the less command is. If you want the expected behavior when you type more , set up an aliases file, and source that file. For a selected list of command equivalents, comparing unix with Windows 2000, see Command Equivalents . There are a number of important differences between UNIX paths associated with cygwin and Windows 2000 paths.