From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Todd Goodman" To: Cc: Subject: RE: Which command to bump when M$ is non-posixish Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <000501be6e2b$6e961050$0301a8c0@tgoodman8> References: <199903140027.QAA19804@grebe.prod.itd.earthlink.net> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00451.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.yZvCK9YeRiswlbk8W5k5APA3yyldDIaDUL-BDEJJj8s@z> I expect you'll find many different answers to this question. I like it to be a Posix machine when I'm running under cygwin shells and a Windows machine otherwise. I just have my cygnus.bat rearrange my path to achieve that effect. Todd > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com > [ mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Henry J. Cobb > Sent: Saturday, March 13, 1999 7:27 PM > To: Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com > Cc: dpainter@lightspeed.net; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com > Subject: Which command to bump when M$ is non-posixish > > > There are a few places where X.exe exists both as a WinDos > builtin and a > standard GNU command installed with Cygwin. > > Now, one of the commands can be renamed (or deleted ;-) or > the path can be > set to choose one over the other (most of the time, for the > Dos prompt). > > My requirement is that a WinDos machine with Cygwin installed function > first as a Windos platform PC then as a DOS machine and > lastly as a Posix > machine. (When I feel the need for speed or whatever, I > reboot to Linux...) > > Therefore I leave cygwin at the end and move the parts I need to > non-blocked names. > > Does anybody think that Cygwin should install itself at the > front of the > Path environment variable? > > > -- > 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