From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "David's Lightspeed Email" , Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:24:00 -0000 Message-id: <007f01be6db9$60d32420$41cd78cf@hunda> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00430.html >I'm running 95. >I have to learn NT by next week:-). Even on Win95, I will not suggest adding Cygwin to autoexec.bat. Start Cygwin using cygnus.bat. I know a few users disagree. > > David L. Painter > dpainter@prontomail.com > dpainter@lightspeed.net > ph: (559) 292-5366 * 3 > fax:(559) 292-0410 >-----Original Message----- >From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi >To: David's Lightspeed Email ; >cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com >Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 4:41 PM >Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control > > >>I think you should not use autoexe.bat and consig.sys on Win NT. Are you >>Win NT or Win 95/98? >> >>If you are on NT do not include Cygwin to PATH. Best start Cygwin by >>Cygnus.bat and do not add WinNT or Windows to PATH in Cygnus.bat. >> >>-- >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: David's Lightspeed Email >>To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com >>Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 7:36 PM >>Subject: find, ksh, and job control >> >> >>> >>> March 13th, 1999 >>> >>>All right, thanks everyone for the feedback. Yes, the problem with "find" >>>was just that my path found the dos version first. Following, Henry's >>>suggesion, I changed this to gfind, and this has fixed the problem >>> >>>As regards job control, please disregard my previous message. The BASH >>>shell "fg", "bg" and "jobs" commands all seem to work fine, and I have no >>>complaints except that my Ctrl-Z suspension doesn't work. >>> >>>Concerning the Ksh, it is actually pretty important that I get this one >>>working today. Corinna has suggested that I may have my Cygwin package >>>installed improperly, but I do not think this is the case: >>> >>> *The Cygwin directory is "cygwin" from the root. >>> *I've kept the original directory structure intact(yes, even the >>>"H-i586-cygwin32" ones) >>> *The sh.exe and cygwin1.dll files have been copied to the "/bin" >>>directory. >>> *My autoexec.bat file includes the Cygwin Binary >>>directory(C:\cygwin\H-i586-cygwin32\bin\) in the path. >>> (I just found out yesterday that using %PATH% in this file can >>cause >>>some major memory problems. . . Does anyone else know more about this?} >>> *Autoexec.bat also adds the following line:"set TERM=CYGWIN" >>> *The config.sys file has the following line: "SHELL=C:\command.com >>>/e:4096 /p" >>> >>>I added the config.sys line, due to the "out of environment space" error >>>message. >>>Should the SHELL variable here be /bin/sh.exe instead? >>> >>>I also have to learn NT and MS SQL in the next week before I start work. >>>Wish me luck. >>> >>>Peace to you all. >>> >>> David L. Painter >>> dpainter@prontomail.com >>> dpainter@lightspeed.net >>> ph: (559) 292-5366 * 3 >>> fax:(559) 292-0410 >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Want to unsubscribe from this list? >>>Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com >>> >>> >> > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "David's Lightspeed Email" , Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <007f01be6db9$60d32420$41cd78cf@hunda> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00430.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.EWF75gziqAX74cOw2pr4M__zaWWjBUWF0hnr3Q0-cFI@z> >I'm running 95. >I have to learn NT by next week:-). Even on Win95, I will not suggest adding Cygwin to autoexec.bat. Start Cygwin using cygnus.bat. I know a few users disagree. > > David L. Painter > dpainter@prontomail.com > dpainter@lightspeed.net > ph: (559) 292-5366 * 3 > fax:(559) 292-0410 >-----Original Message----- >From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi >To: David's Lightspeed Email ; >cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com >Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 4:41 PM >Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control > > >>I think you should not use autoexe.bat and consig.sys on Win NT. Are you >>Win NT or Win 95/98? >> >>If you are on NT do not include Cygwin to PATH. Best start Cygwin by >>Cygnus.bat and do not add WinNT or Windows to PATH in Cygnus.bat. >> >>-- >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: David's Lightspeed Email >>To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com >>Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 7:36 PM >>Subject: find, ksh, and job control >> >> >>> >>> March 13th, 1999 >>> >>>All right, thanks everyone for the feedback. Yes, the problem with "find" >>>was just that my path found the dos version first. Following, Henry's >>>suggesion, I changed this to gfind, and this has fixed the problem >>> >>>As regards job control, please disregard my previous message. The BASH >>>shell "fg", "bg" and "jobs" commands all seem to work fine, and I have no >>>complaints except that my Ctrl-Z suspension doesn't work. >>> >>>Concerning the Ksh, it is actually pretty important that I get this one >>>working today. Corinna has suggested that I may have my Cygwin package >>>installed improperly, but I do not think this is the case: >>> >>> *The Cygwin directory is "cygwin" from the root. >>> *I've kept the original directory structure intact(yes, even the >>>"H-i586-cygwin32" ones) >>> *The sh.exe and cygwin1.dll files have been copied to the "/bin" >>>directory. >>> *My autoexec.bat file includes the Cygwin Binary >>>directory(C:\cygwin\H-i586-cygwin32\bin\) in the path. >>> (I just found out yesterday that using %PATH% in this file can >>cause >>>some major memory problems. . . Does anyone else know more about this?} >>> *Autoexec.bat also adds the following line:"set TERM=CYGWIN" >>> *The config.sys file has the following line: "SHELL=C:\command.com >>>/e:4096 /p" >>> >>>I added the config.sys line, due to the "out of environment space" error >>>message. >>>Should the SHELL variable here be /bin/sh.exe instead? >>> >>>I also have to learn NT and MS SQL in the next week before I start work. >>>Wish me luck. >>> >>>Peace to you all. >>> >>> David L. Painter >>> dpainter@prontomail.com >>> dpainter@lightspeed.net >>> ph: (559) 292-5366 * 3 >>> fax:(559) 292-0410 >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Want to unsubscribe from this list? >>>Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com >>> >>> >> > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com