Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <37B58F5C.DCA718D5@geekspace.com> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:46:36 -0400 From: Joshua Rosen Organization: GEEKS X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,ja,no MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Leo Jingyu LEE CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: A number of newbie questions References: <37B4F6B2.F7A91CEB@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Leo Jingyu LEE wrote: > > Hi, > > 1. Is it possible to add a scrollbar to the CYGNUS window so that I can > see > more than one full screen? The window that BASH typically runs in is just like every other console/DOS window in MS windows--bring up a right-click menu and edit the properties of the running window, or of the shortcut that starts the window. > 2. Generally I am not sure about how to customize the .bashrc file. I > have experience with .cshrc but seems a lot of things there do not work > in .bashrc. Any references for this? The BASH documentation, either in the form of a man page, info page, or any of the other formats available from GNU's home www-site (see http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash) > 2.1 How to add the current directory to the search path? I tried a > number of different ways but it just won't correctly understand '..'. Because ".." means `parent directory'--"." means `current working directory' ;) > 2.2 How to set the prompt? The BASH documentation. > 2.3 How to specify the number of previous commands to remember and > recover the .bash_history file at the next session? The BASH documentation;) > BTW, I am running this software on win98. Thanks, OK. -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GFA/CS/L/M/P/MU/O d(-) s:-- a? C++++$>$ UL P L+ E W+++ N-(!) o? K(--) w(--)(---) O+++ M-- V? PS+++ PE Y+ PGP-(+++) t 5 X+ R* tv(+) b+ DI+ D---- G+++ e- h! r% y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ rozzin@geekspace.com -- http://i.am/rozzin -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com