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 Message-ID: <3E82101C.45E8CBE7@isg.de> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:39:56 +0100 From: Tino Lange Organization: IS Innovative Software AG X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew DeFaria , jld@ecoscentric.com Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation References: <200303261832.53052.jld@ecoscentric.com> <3E81FE8B.9060008@Salira.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > He also said he needed to determine this from "outside the Cygwin > environment" and I would think that cygpath is inside the Cygwin > environment. Think about it. You're in cmd.exe and you want to tell > where Cygwin is installed. How can you execute cygpath without knowing > where cygpath is? The only way that would work is if Cygwin's bin path > is already in PATH and this is not set by default when Cygwin is installed. This is not true! There's a trick: At least under >= Windows 2000 you can just put 'cygpath.exe' (and its path) in your so called "ApplicationPaths". This is a Registry location for several utils you can just call by name - no more needed. Have a look at your: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths" When you start such an application it don't need to be in the path of the machine. Solution: Just put 'cygpath.exe' in your Application path - then you're able to use it from everywhere on your machine. So you can find the CYGWIN root with "cygpath -w /". You might also want to have a look at this great tool from Gergory Braun to easily maintain your AppPaths Applications: http://www.gregorybraun.com/AppPaths.html Cheers, Tino -- 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/