mksnt sh is invoked when executing cygwin icon;

[Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com>]

Hi;

  It seems that a 32bit Windows server with a pre-existing MKS Toolkit
installation prevents an interactive Cygwin window (mintty) from
starting properly.

  If the c:\mksnt directory (where MKS Tookkit is installed) is
renamed to c:\NOTmksnt, then double-clicking the Cygwin icon results
in:

"Failed to run C:/mksnt/sh.exe: No such file or directory"

But if the c:\NOTmksnt directory is renamed back to what it was, then
the window opens up with sh.exe from mksnt instead of bash and seems
to hang for a very long time.

   Why is this?  Part of me thinks that Cygwin and MKS Toolkit should
just coexist just fine, each not knowing about the other (c:\cygwin
and c:\mksnt).  Part of me thinks that I'd like to have Cygwin come
first in the path rather than having c:\mksnt first in the path.  Is
there a way to force the Cygwin install process (or fix it afterward)
to put Cygwin first?

  I tried to change /etc/profile so that the PATH variable was set to
exclusively Cygwin stuff, but that had no effect.

  How to fix this outside Cygwin? (The Windows side)

  How to fix this inside Cygwin?

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

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