Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <003a01bf0a27$c6d344c0$23d1dacf@thales> From: "The Tolands" To: "Franklin Wingate" Cc: "Cygwin List" References: Subject: Re: .bashrc Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:07:32 -0500 Organization: None MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Your problem is with the following two lines: export PATH= opt/Mix_nt; /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6.4/bin$PATH This should read: export PATH=/opt/Mix_nt:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6.4/bin:$PATH Note that it is one line and uses colons to seperate each element of the path. I really strongly recommend that you get a good book on BASH. _Learning the bash Shell_ from O'Reilly is pretty good. phil ----- Original Message ----- From: Franklin Wingate To: Sent: Tuesday, 28 September, 1999 21:51 Subject: .bashrc > > Sorry to keep bothering everyone with this basic problem, but some time > ago, i was using the information on > http://www.scoutsys.com/sunt/su32/setting_up_cygwin.htm which no longer > exists i basically set up my directory structure and bashrc file as was > indicated on the page, but when i try to use the .bashrc file, i get > /opt/Mix_nt is a director. I have included the file for someone to inspect > please someone give me a straight answer what i'm doing wrong -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com