MinTTY is copyright 2008-09 Andy Koppe.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty 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 PuTTY version 0.60 by Simon Tatham and contributors, available from ftp://ftp.chiark.greenend.org.uk/users/sgtatham/putty-0.60. Big thanks to everyone involved. Thanks also to KDE's Oxygen team for the program icon.

Please note that MinTTY is also available as a Cygwin package that can be installed through Cygwin's setup.exe, where it can be found in the Shells category.

Running MinTTY

MinTTY requires Cygwin, so Windows needs to be able to find the Cygwin DLL (cygwin1.dll) when starting mintty.exe. There are several ways to ensure 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. This is a good idea anyway, as it makes all the Cygwin commands available from the Windows 'Command Prompt' and 'Run...' dialog.
• 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.

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.