Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Pabs" Reply-To: pabs3@crosswinds.net To: "Jason B. Alonso" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 11:27:13 +0800 Subject: RE: cygwin.bat replacement ... Message-id: <3aca9406.ce1f.0@crosswinds.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Might I suggest a somewhat simpler solution? Sure --------------------------------------------------------------- ...I noticed that the normal Cygwin.bat is minimalist. It sets the CYGWIN environment variable and runs bash, nothing else. Not even a path setting. Everything else is handled in /etc/profile. --------------------------------------------------------------- At home on win95 & win98 here at uni there is no CYGWIN env var. What is it for? >Here's my solution (replace C:\Cygwin as necessary)... >Cyg2.bat >======== >@echo off >cd "%1" >SET CYGWIN=tty ntsec >SET CYG2=HOLD >C:\Cygwin\bin\bash --login -i >========= Elegant, but you are missing "cd back to the curent directory for people who called cygwin.bat from a command.com (or cmd.exe) prompt" and it doesn't seem to work when %1 is nothing even if I replace cd "%1" with if NOT %1/ == / cd "%1" The main reason I did it only using a batch file (& not /etc/profile) was that I had problems with special characters in the pathnames like single quotes (') and with "" quoting. Also I wanted to be able to have only one file for executing cygwin. I still think it would be better implemented as an exe since it would eliminate such interpretation problems. >I might have added it myself, but I don't remember... Nope setup.exe installs that. Seeya, Pabs -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple