From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Question about windows shortchts to start a bash script
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4973F5A6.1050607@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21536420.post@talk.nabble.com>
LMHmedchem wrote:
> I added "c:\cygwin\bin;" to the path and that seems to have corrected the
> problem, thanks for the tip.
>
> Two questions if you have a minute,
>
> 1. At first I tried adding cygwin to the end of the path, but that didn't
> work. I checked my other machine and found cygwin immediately after
> %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;
> I stuck cygwin in as the first entry after Wbem, and it worked after that. I
> am surprised that it matters where it is in the list. Does it actually
> matter or do you think I made an error in my first entry?
The order doesn't matter.
> 2. There was another variable on my other machine,
> Variable name:
> CYGWIN
> Variable value:
> ntsec tty
>
> I did not set up that environment and I am wondering if that really needs to
> be there.
No, it's not a requirement. 'ntsec' is default now, so that setting is
redundant. 'tty' is only needed if you require pty emulation in a
Cygwin shell started from a Windows cmd.exe window. See:
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-19 3:39 LMHmedchem
2009-01-19 8:07 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2009-01-19 8:20 ` LMHmedchem
2009-01-19 9:25 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]
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