Re: mintty functionality

2013-08-25 Thread d.henman
David, thanks for your advice. It didn't run right off the bat, but with some proper single and double quoting. The fact that env takes a command as an argument is what enabled it to work. Cheers. The normal way works and even $ PATH=${PATH}: mintty cmd The command line

mintty functionality

2013-08-24 Thread wynfield
I am attempting to create a desktop icon for cygwin based applicatin. I am using mkshortcut and mintty with the program to be invoked's name as am argument to mintty. The problem I'm encountering is that the applicatin that mintty is to run requires /usr/lib/lapack which is not in

Re: mintty functionality

2013-08-24 Thread Robert Marklund
Doesn't the normal terminal way work? PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH command Or for library: LIBRARY_PATH=my/path:$LIBRARY_PATH command /R 2013/8/24 wynfi...@gmail.com: I am attempting to create a desktop icon for cygwin based applicatin. I am using mkshortcut and mintty with the program to be

Re: mintty functionality

2013-08-24 Thread wynfield
The normal way works and even $ PATH=${PATH}: mintty cmd The command line invokation is no problem. But, I couldn't do with a desktop shortcut with something like: mkshortcut -w /tmp -D -A -d Run orpie RPN calculater. -n Orpie RPN Calculater -i /home/djh/icons/hp_calc.ico -a -p

Re: mintty functionality

2013-08-24 Thread Robert Marklund
So should this not work ? mkshortcut -w /tmp -D -A -d Run orpie RPN calculater. -n Orpie RPN Calculater -i /home/djh/icons/hp_calc.ico -a -p '100,150' -t 'Orpie Calculater' -e \PATH=${PATH}: /usr/bin/orpie\ /bin/mintty.exe /R 2013/8/24 wynfi...@gmail.com: The normal way works and even

Re: mintty functionality

2013-08-24 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/24/2013 6:58 AM, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: The normal way works and even $ PATH=${PATH}: mintty cmd The command line invokation is no problem. But, I couldn't do with a desktop shortcut with something like: mkshortcut -w /tmp -D -A -d Run orpie RPN calculater. -n Orpie RPN