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 the MinGW installer, using `mingw-get install msys-mintty`.

Otherwise, you need to ensure that Windows is able to find the MSYS DLL (msys-1.0.dll) when starting mintty.exe. There are several ways to do this:

- Start it from within an existing MSYS session.
- Place mintty.exe alongside msys-1.0.dll in the MSYS /bin directory and start it from there.
- Add the MSYS /bin directory (e.g. C:\MSYS\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 MSYS /bin directory.

Invoke mintty as follows to obtain a login shell that sources all the usual startup scripts: `mintty /bin/bash -l`

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.

Enjoy!
Andy