mintty is copyright 2008-11 Andy Koppe.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. Updates and source code are available from the mintty project page at http://mintty.googlecode.com.

Mintty is based on parts of PuTTY version 0.60 by Simon Tatham and contributors, available from http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60. Big thanks to everyone involved. Thanks also to KDE's Oxygen team for the program icon.

#### Running mintty

First off, instead of installing mintty manually, consider installing it through Cygwin's setup.exe, where it can be found in the Shells category. This will place a shortcut to mintty in the Cygwin folder of the start menu.

Otherwise, you need to ensure that Windows is able to find the Cygwin DLL (cygwin1.dll) when starting mintty.exe. There are several ways to do this:

- Start it from within an existing Cygwin session.
- Place mintty.exe alongside cygwin1.dll in the Cygwin /bin directory and start it from there.
- Add the Cygwin bin directory (normally C:\cygwin\bin) to the Windows PATH variable, which can be found under 'Environment Variables' on the 'Advanced' tab of the System Properties control panel.
- Create a shortcut to mintty.exe with the working directory set to the Cygwin bin directory. This can be done with the create_shortcut.js script.

Invoke mintty with a dash as its only argument to obtain a login shell that sources all the usual startup scripts: `mintty -`

Invoking mintty with --version or --help will print version or usage information. The mintty manual in PDF format can be found on the project page at http://mintty.googlecode.com.

Please report bugs or suggest enhancements via the issue tracker. Vote for any issues you'd particularly like to see addressed by starring them. The discussion group for all things mintty is mintty-discuss. Questions can also be sent to the Cygwin mailing list.

Enjoy!
Andy