INSTALL.Windows.md: Mention the easy way to get into bash.

Just typing 'bash' from MSVC developers command prompt _can_ cause MSYS to use the Windows version of 'sort' instead of the GNU sort. Reported-by: Hemanth Kumar Mantri <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <[email protected]> Acked-by: Eitan Eliahu <[email protected]>
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@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ Gur Stavi               [email protected]
 Hari Sasank Bhamidipalli [email protected]
 Hassan Khan             [email protected]
 Hector Oron             [email protected]
+Hemanth Kumar Mantri    [email protected]
 Henrik Amren            [email protected]
 Hiroshi Tanaka          [email protected]
 Hiroshi Miyata          [email protected]

diff --git a/INSTALL.Windows.md b/INSTALL.Windows.md
@@ -35,11 +35,13 @@ install Windows Driver Kit (WDK) 8.1 Update.
 It is important to get the Visual Studio related environment variables and to
 have the $PATH inside the bash to point to the proper compiler and linker. One
 easy way to achieve this is to get into the "Developer Command prompt for visual
-studio" and through it enter into the bash shell available from msys.
+studio" and through it enter into the bash shell available from msys by typing
+'bash --login'.
 
 If after the above step, a 'which link' inside MSYS's bash says,
 "/bin/link.exe", rename /bin/link.exe to something else so that the
-Visual studio's linker is used.
+Visual studio's linker is used. You should also see a 'which sort' report
+"/bin/sort.exe".
 
 * For pthread support, install the library, dll and includes of pthreads-win32
 project from