From: Gregory Walker <gwalker@jump.net>
To: philippe gerard <philippe.gerard@inria.fr>
Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Cygnus And Windows 2000 ?]]
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000823211114.00985950@pop.jump.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000823110256.F4479@cygnus.com>
At 11:02 AM 8/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I tried to install cygwin with windows 2000. The installation procedure
>has no problem but the application is not working properly:
>When I click on the Cygwin icon , the only thing I get is a really brief
>black window where I don't have the time to read the content.
This started happening to me on a Win98 system where CygWin had
been working perfectly before!! I found the problem by editing
the cygwin.bat to remove "@echo off" from the beginning and then
manually running it from a plain MSDOS command window to see what
broke.
The problem was that installing a windows program had put the line
SET PATH=%PATH%;"C:PROGRAM FILES\SOMEPROGRAM"
into the autoexec.bat file.
Well, now the PATH variable has a blank in it and when cygwin.bat
tries to modify its value the SET command fails. The fix is to
put double-quotes around the entire string that on the right-hand
side of the equals where cygwin.bat modifies PATH, as in:
SET PATH="c:\cygwin\bin;c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin;%PATH%"
Hope this helps.
Gregory Walker gwalker@jump.net
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2000-08-23 8:03 [krk@cygnus.com: " Chris Faylor
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