--- Bernard Revet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Earnie > > Looking back to the FAQs of Cygwin-Xfree I found out that you answered > to David Starks-Browning about the fact that bash did not read his > .bashrc file. > I already mentioned this point to the list and I did not get any answer > . > You can put your .bashrc file at any starting directory / /bin or > /usr/X11R6/bin or ~ > directory it is not read except if you have a better way to have it done > > for instance > with cygwin.bat > such as > > @echo off > set COURBURE=/Courbure > D: > chdir \cygwin\bin > > bash --login -i > > Then if you > echo $COURBURE will give /Courbure > > Putting > set COURBURE=/Courbure > export COURBURE > > in a .bashrc file will not set COURBURE > wherever you put your .bashrc file > > Same story with startxwin.bat > In that case you even have to SET HOME=/home/administrateur for > instance in you startxwin.bat file > > If you have some hint to solve this problem I will deeply appreciate > > Yours > Sincerely > Bernard > > > .bashrc belongs in your $HOME directory. It is not "automatically" read when bash is in login mode (i.e. --login). The Cygwin setup process creates a /etc/profile file that looks for ~/.bashrc and executes it if it exists. I hope this helps. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- <http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com> --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows <http://gw32.freeyellow.com/> --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows <http://www.mingw.org/> --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
