From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "Rick Rankin" Cc: Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <007a01be6db9$218f0130$41cd78cf@hunda> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00429.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.HI9OS18y_aZ5uEApQdlqaJRxB5TNhN74rZKHI1Ar_0U@z> - >But are there really enough command name conflicts to justify all that? I >haven't really checked, but the only one I'm really aware of is find, and >the windows find command is pretty useless anyway. After a little back and forth writing you are basically syaing the same thing *Windows find is useless.* If you have Windows Nt UNIX option pack installed then there are a whole lot of conflicts if you add Cygwin to your WinNT path. >Personally, I am >perfectly happy putting the cygwin bin in my path ahead of windows or winnt, >but if there are other name clashes, perhaps another method is warranted. > If I rememebr correctly, a while ago, some user wrote he deleted cmd.exe and replaced is by bash.exe. I think it is all personal preferences what you like to see, do and are used to of. >Rick >-- >Rick Rankin >rrankin@primenet.com > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi [ mailto:Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com ] >> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 1999 6:01 PM >> To: Rick Rankin; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com >> Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control >> >> >> >> >> >> >> If you are on NT do not include Cygwin to PATH. Best start Cygwin by >> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >Why not? I have it in my path because I want to be able to run cygwin >> >commands from bash or from cmd.exe. >> > >> >> I can also run cygwin commands from cmd.exe. For this purpose, I created >> another batch file, called cygnus-dos.bat and replashed the *bash* with >> *cmd* If I start NT cmd.exe using this my *cygnus-dos.bat* file, >> I can use >> all of my cygwin commands from cmd.exe prompt, and stll do not get any >> conflicts. >> >> >> --SMS >> >> >Rick >> >-- >> >Rick Rankin >> >rrankin@primenet.com >> > >> > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com