still stuck on Cygwin on way to NT Lilypond

[John Sankey]

I know this isn't really a gnu-music issue directly, but there doesn't seem
to be any forum for cygwin problems, and the only thing I want to run under
it is Lilypond. So :

My internet connection is too slow and unreliable to use on-line instal, so
I downloaded setup.exe and all the binaries for cygwin separately and put
them in one directory as per instructions.

All I can get out of cygwin is things like
bash: ls: command not found
for just about everything.

Any suggestions as to where to look?

John Sankey
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