Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Steve Subject: Re: How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:44:22 -0500 Organization: The graviatational research institute Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <000f01c2d5d5$265bb590$78d96f83@pomello> <000f01c2d5d5$265bb590$78d96f83@pomello> <5.2.0.9.2.20030216092053.01da49a8@pop3.cris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030216092053.01da49a8@pop3.cris.com> Randall R Schulz wrote: > Steve, > > I see. This will work if a simple invocation of "bash" with no options > is acceptable. > > 1) Make sure Cygwin's /bin or /usr/bin directory are in your system-wide > PATH. > 2) Invoke "cygstart bash" (don't type the quotes, of course) > > A new window appears running a new instance of BASH. I don't want that. Right now I am booting up a dos window, typeing "bash" and getting bash in that dos window. I want the above, but without having to type "bash" when I boot up the dos window Thanks for the other interesting tips though :) Steve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/