From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 106589 invoked by alias); 1 Dec 2017 17:00:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 106491 invoked by uid 89); 1 Dec 2017 17:00:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KB_WAM_FROM_NAME_SINGLEWORD,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=gems, mateosian, Mateosian, ruby X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.138) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 17:00:00 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id KofNe90X5GvLHKofOeXCyF; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:59:58 -0700 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=a9pAzQaF c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:117 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:17 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=fI_uVNb056JnQl7mUW0A:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: Requested report To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <621196364.20171130223717@yandex.ru> <18DA4DAE-F801-45B9-9E3D-F03BF7420D07@solidrocksystems.com> From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <334708bb-eedb-ed40-8c64-3d0028af5214@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 17:00:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <18DA4DAE-F801-45B9-9E3D-F03BF7420D07@solidrocksystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfFGlR/qPrfyJjL+s+FRcZvoHgvRzt5KGkFAjutR1zG+xKsia0eCr45vC/L7BNS++Cb8ht4dnQTEHS584dDcz8VQ88/1HqwphtXRMRfP9Rpcjhy+MllT+ zFQxhyaoKZYi7W8vSUdC256j7fsO1VtKhisJ2t+Hh+m9gUvcnurVH41z2LEgNN7r1vYrJ/egFCjpcw== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-12/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 On 2017-12-01 08:35, Vince Rice wrote: >> On Dec 1, 2017, at 8:55 AM, cyg Simple wrote: >> On 11/30/2017 11:41 PM, Richard Mateosian wrote: >>> Thanks. I wasn't actually using Cygwin, but Ruby apparently does so >>> under the covers. Or maybe my path leads it astray, because I used to use >>> Cygwin -- a long time ago. Some of these packages include Cygwin RT under the covers as an install base, and to support Ruby Gems, which is why we keep seeing FAST_CWD complaints. >> You should not put Cygwin in your Windows PATH environment at the system >> level or user levels. If you need it during a command shell session, >> add it after you start the command shell. I've never heard that Ruby >> intentionally uses Cygwin. > > What? I've had cygwin in my path since the B19 days (that's right, even > *before* the infamous B20). I regularly (and almost exclusively) use cygwin > tools in the command processor; I have a mintty session open, but only use > it when I need to do shell-related things. > There's no reason not to have Cygwin in the Windows path, and lots of reasons > to do so (grep, cat, tail, head, etc., etc.). +1 post TC AST/Uwin, BCpp GNUtilities, DJgpp, GnuWin32, MinGW, Msys, ... ...elevated System Scheduled Tasks using shell scripts... -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple