Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin

2004-06-04 Thread Will Senn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's a doc? Well color me surpised, who'd of thunk it? I've been using cygwin for nigh on 20 years, well, at least since B19 and I never knew. I thought it was a sort of modern day heath kit that you had to figure it out for yourself. Go figure. Nice

Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin

2004-06-03 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 12:47:27 -0700, Chris Carlson wrote: > Suggesting the reading of a book on shells wouldn't be quite > useful either, since Cygwin does things just a little differently. A > pointer to the Cygwin document might have helped. I'm still > looking for it. I thought I'd point out t

Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin

2004-06-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Chris Carlson wrote: > Unfortunately, Linux seems to be leaning toward keeping things in info > format. More up-to-date documentation can be found there, so I've > learned how to use Emacs to peruse info manuals. s/Linux/the GNU project/ On sane linux installations such as debian you at least g

RE: PATH and HOME in cygwin

2004-06-03 Thread Chris Carlson
Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hannu E K Nevalainen Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: PATH and HOME in cygwin > From: Chris Carlson > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:29 PM > I

RE: PATH and HOME in cygwin

2004-06-03 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Chris Carlson > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:29 PM > I'm just suggesting that we show a little patience to people who may not > be as well versed in Unix as you are. It is the impatient, > condescending tone that gives new Linux users a bad taste for the OS. I > want Linux to crush M

RE: PATH and HOME in cygwin

2004-06-03 Thread Chris Carlson
Stor Networks, Inc. -Original Message- From: Thorsten Kampe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 4:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin * Chris Carlson (2004-06-02 21:47 +0100) > I understand your frustration, but your experience is not ev

Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin

2004-06-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Chris Carlson (2004-06-02 21:47 +0100) > I understand your frustration, but your experience is not everyone's. Frustration? > So far, I've installed cygwin on 7 different machines. One Windows 98, > two Windows XP and at least 4 Windows 2000 systems. Of the seven, all > were installed from t

RE: PATH and HOME in cygwin

2004-06-02 Thread Chris Carlson
n Kampe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin * David Fay (2004-06-02 13:50 +0100) > I am trying to set my PATH and HOME in cygwin. Why? Didn't you have these yet? Didn't you like them? > U

Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin

2004-06-02 Thread Martin Magnusson
David Fay wrote: I am trying to set my PATH and HOME in cygwin. Under the /etc/profile file it says to change the bashrc.bash file and I have amended this but still no change. I also see there is a .bash_profile file in both the /etc/defaults/etc/skel and /etc/skel. I originally thought that

Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin

2004-06-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* David Fay (2004-06-02 13:50 +0100) > I am trying to set my PATH and HOME in cygwin. Why? Didn't you have these yet? Didn't you like them? > Under the /etc/profile file it says to change the bashrc.bash file > and I have amended this but still no change. You didn't

Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin

2004-06-02 Thread Eugene Kotlyarov
Hello David Fay wrote: I am trying to set my PATH and HOME in cygwin. Under the /etc/profile file it says to change the bashrc.bash file and I have amended this but still no change. I also see there is a .bash_profile file in both the /etc/defaults/etc/skel and /etc/skel. I originally thought

PATH and HOME in cygwin

2004-06-02 Thread David Fay
Hello, I am trying to set my PATH and HOME in cygwin. Under the /etc/profile file it says to change the bashrc.bash file and I have amended this but still no change. I also see there is a .bash_profile file in both the /etc/defaults/etc/skel and /etc/skel. I originally thought that this is the