From:	cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor)
Subject:	Re: Suppressing name of running binary in shell windows
11 Sep 1997 14:22:09 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<EGCnsq.356cygnus.gnu-win32@bbc.com>
References:	<2 DOT 2 DOT 32 DOT 19970912004734 DOT 00944904 AT ma DOT ultranet DOT com>
Reply-To:	cgf AT bbc DOT com

In article <2 DOT 2 DOT 32 DOT 19970912004734 DOT 00944904 AT ma DOT ultranet DOT com>,
Larry Hall  <lhall AT rfk DOT com> wrote:
>At 06:27 PM 9/10/97 +0100, Andrew Stevens wrote:
>>Can some kind Soul remind me of the registry entry for
>>turning off NT's irritating habit of constantly updating
>>the title of a shell window to the program currently running
>>under it.  
>
>If you're talking about running under bash, you need a version of
>Sergey's cygwin.dll.  If you have one, you set an environment variable.
>Set CYGWIN_NOTITLE=1.  I'm not sure what the comparable thing is in 
>DOS land....

Actually, in the most recent version of Sergey's cygwin.dll, the default
is to not change the title of the shell window.  You turn it *on* with:

set CYGWIN_TITLE=1
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