From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David's Lightspeed Email" To: Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <019301be6db7$9d8c1a40$cf39a5d1@www.lightspeed.net> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00428.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.hQ-uwzrJytO6EvcgIYSLuE_hnO_-nNh8DQQi6DKLveU@z> March 1st, 1999 I'm running 95. I have to learn NT by next week:-). 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