Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: "Todd Goodman" To: Cc: Subject: RE: Which command to bump when M$ is non-posixish Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:00:41 -0500 Message-ID: <000501be6e2b$6e961050$0301a8c0@tgoodman8> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 In-Reply-To: <199903140027.QAA19804@grebe.prod.itd.earthlink.net> Importance: Normal I expect you'll find many different answers to this question. I like it to be a Posix machine when I'm running under cygwin shells and a Windows machine otherwise. I just have my cygnus.bat rearrange my path to achieve that effect. Todd > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com]On Behalf Of Henry J. Cobb > Sent: Saturday, March 13, 1999 7:27 PM > To: Ssiddiqi AT InspirePharm DOT Com > Cc: dpainter AT lightspeed DOT net; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > Subject: Which command to bump when M$ is non-posixish > > > There are a few places where X.exe exists both as a WinDos > builtin and a > standard GNU command installed with Cygwin. > > Now, one of the commands can be renamed (or deleted ;-) or > the path can be > set to choose one over the other (most of the time, for the > Dos prompt). > > My requirement is that a WinDos machine with Cygwin installed function > first as a Windos platform PC then as a DOS machine and > lastly as a Posix > machine. (When I feel the need for speed or whatever, I > reboot to Linux...) > > Therefore I leave cygwin at the end and move the parts I need to > non-blocked names. > > Does anybody think that Cygwin should install itself at the > front of the > Path environment variable? > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com