Help!

I've recently volunteered to start learning UNIX for the company I work for.
However as of today, I still have not been granted access to any UNIX box and thus a working Shell. I've been informed that the Editor we will be using is Vi.

They have, however, given me access to TONS of brand new books and online courses to help me learn this new cool new langauge.

My question is this: can a person donwload a working shell script editor that will run on Windows XP Pro so that I may be able to practice using the commands and scripts I am learning until such time as I have been granted access to our company's UNIX boxes?

Thanks!

Certainly, Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows, you will find all the info on that link.

I found Cygwin a few days ago, and it never seems to follow all the way thru the setup process. It gets to the point where one can choose a download site, but the list is not populated. I'm not sure if this is on Cygwin's side, or if something on my end is stopping me from seeing the list.

I get the feeling it's Cygwin.

My next option is to run a Live Version of Open BSD or some Linux distro, but I'm trying to avoid that route if I can.

This might work

uwin/uwin.mm mm document

I didn't see any mention of vi as I scanned through some of the documentation, but it is UNIX and it runs on a windows pc.