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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:46:01 +1000 (EST)
From: luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au
Subject: Re: how to make cygwin run under shells other than bash
To: Damien Suttle <Damien_Suttle@brown.edu>
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On 24 Jul, Damien Suttle wrote:
>  Hi,>  my favorite shell is tcsh, but cygwin always starts up in bash.
>  I tried playing with the cygwin.bat file, but i couldn't get it
>  to work. does anyone know how to reconfigure cygwin to start up
>  in other shells?

$ mkshortcut -D -A -n "tcshw"  -a '-l' /usr/bin/tcsh.exe

Or just right click on the cywgin icon's properties and change the shell
it runs, if you want to hack.  Or change the shell for your account, in
/etc/passwd I think.

luke


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