From: huott@pinebush.com (Ed Huott) Subject: Re: Start-up files for bash? 14 Mar 1997 14:29:14 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199703142140.QAA20426.cygnus.gnu-win32@sol.pinebush.com> Original-To: sissonlh@esper.com (Leonard Sisson) Original-cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:25:18 EST." <199703141425.JAA02254@alpha.esper.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com In message <199703141425.JAA02254@alpha.esper.com>, Leonard Sisson writes: >I have just installed the Cygnus Win32 utility binaries including Bash under >Win 95. A few years ago I had & helped do admin on a Sun Sparc system and >used mostly csh. As I recall, we had both system startup and individual >login startup (something like .cshrc, .profile?) files as well as such files >as some in an /etc directory (hosts & others). I assume such startup files >are implemented for the Win 32 port of Bash, but I haven't run across the >documentation on how to do that yet. Can anyone tell me where I can find >that info? > The bash shell is fully documented in the info/bash.info file that should reside under the root of your cygwin32 installation. You will find a discussion of the startup files it uses there. This file is most easily browsed with an info file viewer such as the one built into emacs. It is, however, a mostly ASCII file, so any reasonable editor or file viewer (even your web browser) will do. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".