Moshell

1. 1-Go to the website www.cygwin.com
2- Click on "Install Now"
3- Save the setup.exe file, then execute it.
4- Choose "Install from internet", then click Next.
5- Root Directory "C:/cygwin" (It is not recommended to choose a different directory, especially if it
contains spaces).
If prompted for "Default Text File Type", choose UNIX (not DOS). Then click Next.
6- Select Internet Connection: put the proxy settings or select "use IE settings". Then click Next.
7- Choose a Download Site. The site http://sourceware.mirrors.tds.net is recommended.
8- Select Packages: Add the following packages:
- under "Archive", select "zip" and "unzip"
- under "Perl", select "perl"
- under net, select "inetutils", "openssh", "openssl"
- under shells, select "rxvt"
- under "Editors" select "vim" (optional)
9- Click Next. Install will start. Wait for installation to complete.
10- Download the file http://utran01.au.ao.ericsson.se/moshell/cygwin_install.txt to C:/Cygwin .
11- Click on Start --> Run. In the "Run" window, type: cmd , then press "enter".
A DOS window opens. At the DOS prompt, execute the following commands:
c:
cd cygwin
binperl cygwin_install.txt
This will create the following files: c:/cygwin/etc/profile, c:/cygwin/cygwin.bat,
c:/cygwin/home/youruserid/.bashrc, c:/cygwin/home/youruserid/.Xdefaults,
c:/cygwin/home/youruserid/.inputrc. If those files already exist, they are automatically moved to the
folder c:/cygwin/tmp/installbackup.
12- Open a cygwin terminal window by double-clicking on the cygwin icon in the start menu or on the
file c:/cygwin/cygwin.bat. The window should be black with white text and the prompt should like this:
[~]$
If not, then go through all the steps again and make sure you haven't missed out anything.
13- Moshell installation:
In the directory C:Cygwin ,double-click on the file cygwin.bat. This will startup the
Cygwin window and create some files. Now close the Cygwin window.
Open an editor and edit the file cygwin.bat
Delete the line: bash --login -i. At the end of the file add the following (replace
xxxx with your user id):
set USER=xxxx
set HOME=/home/xxxx
set SHELL=/bin/bash
rxvt -sl 65000 -e /bin/bash --login -i
IMPORTANT: Make sure that there are no spaces at the end of the lines otherwise the
windows environment variables don’t get set correctly and your .Xdefaults file will not be
read (meaning that rxvt looks horrible!).
10. Open the file C:Cygwinetcprofile in a text editor and add the following 6 lines at the
end of the file (replace xxx with your user id!):
export USER=xxxx
export HOME=/home/xxxx
export SHELL=/bin/bash
mkdir -p $HOME
cd $HOME

2. source $HOME/.bashrc
11. Edit the file C:/Cygwin/etc/passwd in a text editor and make sure that there is a row with
your username and home directory. If the home directory (found towards the end of the
line) looks like /cygdrive/h then replace this with /home/youruserid (replace youruserid
with your user id!!). This is needed for ssh to function properly.
12. Start a Cygwin Terminal window by clicking on the icon in start menu or on desktop, then
run the following commands:
Create the following 3 files in your /home/youruserid directory: .bashrc, .inputrc, and
.Xdefaults This can be done with the commands:
touch .bashrc
touch .inputrc
touch .Xdefaults
13. Go to the directory C:Cygwinhomeyouruserid (from windows explorer) and open the
following 3 files in a text editor:
In the .bashrc file, put the following lines:
unset PROMPT_COMMAND
export PS1="[033[1m][w]$[033[0m] "
alias ls=’ls -FX’
set -o notify
set -o ignoreeof
shopt -s cdspell
shopt -s cdable_vars
shopt -s checkhash
shopt -s checkwinsize
shopt -s sourcepath
shopt -s histappend
export PATH=$PATH:/home/yourid/moshell
The last line appends the moshell directory to your $PATH. This will enable you to call
moshell from any directory.
In the .inputrc file, put the following lines:
set bell-style visible
set convert-meta Off
set output-meta On
set input-meta On
set completion-ignore-case on
set completion-query-items 150
set mark-directories on
set visible-stats On
set show-all-if-ambiguous On
set expand-tilde On
"e[D": backward-char
"e[C": forward-char
"e[A": history-search-backward
"e[B": history-search-forward
"e[7~": beginning-of-line
"e[8~": end-of-line
"e[1~": beginning-of-line
"e[4~": end-of-line
"e[3~": delete-char
"e[2~": menu-complete
"M-[2~": paste-from-clipboard # Insert
"M-q": menu-complete
"C-d": delete-char
"C-l": clear-screen
"C-xdf": dump-functions
"C-xdv": dump-variables
"C-xdm": dump-macros
(Type man bash if you want to get more information about what these lines do)
In the .Xdefaults file, put the following lines:

3. Rxvt*background: Black
Rxvt*foreground: White
Rxvt*saveLines: 65535
Rxvt*termName: xterm
Rxvt*geometry: 143x64+0+0
Rxvt*loginShell: true
Rxvt*font: "Lucida Console-11"
Rxvt*cutchars: ‘"’&()*,;<=>? []{|}
These are just examples of terminal properties, you can change them to fit your needs.
Type man rxvt to view all available properties.
14. Open a new cygwin terminal window. The window should be black with white text and
the prompt should like this: [~]$
If not, then go through the last 4 steps again and make sure you haven’t missed out
anything.
15. Moshell installation
Follows these steps if you already have a working Cygwin environment.
• Put the moshellxxx.zip file in c:cygwintmp
• Open the cygwin shell and go the /tmp directory. Run the following:
unzip -o moshellxxx.zip
bash moshell_install