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A complete html guide on cygwin
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html

• Cygwin create a full unix server inside the installation directory.
• The default installation is at the root of windows.
• all existing drive are accessible at /dir/cygdrive/c for drive c in windows.
• all pwd in the cygwin directory, will be relative to this directory

Cygwin permission, depends of what type of partition the hard drive has been formatted
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-filemodes.html

• Connect to a Wamp databases, from Cygwin
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10995465/connecting-to-mysql-through-cygwin

 mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -p

works To import a database dump for example

 mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root -p database < /dir/dump.sql