Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Unsubscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>, <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Message-ID:	<19991011122141.10151.rocketmail@web122.yahoomail.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Oct 1999 05:21:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject:	Re: For the FAQ: NT PATH problems
To:	Kai Henningsen <kai AT cats DOT ms>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
MIME-Version:	1.0

--- Kai Henningsen <kai AT cats DOT ms> wrote:
-8<-
> This is my CYGNUS.BAT:
> 
> @ECHO OFF
> SET MAKE_MODE=UNIX
> SET
>
PATH=E:\gcc-2.95.1-mingw32\bin;E:\gcc-2_95-mingw32\bin\;E:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin;%PATH%
> SET CDPATH=
> SET HOME=/home
> SET CYGWIN=ntsec
             ^^^^^
Don't overlook this setting with this problem.  Although I can't imagine why it
would cause it, this has issued numerous changes that could cause this.

> bash --login
> 
> This is the 'Path' system environment var definition:
> 
> E:\Perl\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;F:\Programme\Personal
>
Communications;f:\aintx;%SystemRoot%\system32\nls\ENGLISH;%SystemRoot%\system32\nls;E:\NTReskit
> 
> The first (and second) Cygwin window opened today had the
> following PATH:
> 
> PATH='/Perl/bin:/WINNT/system32:/WINNT:/f/Programme/Personal
>
Communications:/f/aintx:/WINNT/system32/nls/ENGLISH:/WINNT/system32/nls:/NTReskit:/cygdrive/w/:/cygdrive/z/:/cygdrive/y/:/cygdrive/x/'
> 
> Then I added an empty user environment var PATH, and lo and
> behold, the next Cygwin window opened had:
> 
>
PATH='/gcc-2.95.1-mingw32/bin:/gcc-2_95-mingw32/bin/:/cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin:/Perl/bin:/WINNT/system32:/WINNT:/f/Programme/Personal
>
Communications:/f/aintx:/WINNT/system32/nls/ENGLISH:/WINNT/system32/nls:/NTReskit:/cygdrive/w/:/cygdrive/z/:/cygdrive/y/:/cygdrive/x/:/cygdrive/c/WIN95.US:/cygdrive/c/WIN95.US/COMMAND:/cygdrive/c/WIN98.US/COMMAND:/cygdrive/c/WIN98:/cygdrive/c/WIN98/COMMAND:/f/READIBMW:/f/vim/vim55'
> 
> So: absence of this variable does not always produce the bug, but
> *if* the bug shows up, creating said variable removes it.
> 


=====
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>

Newbies, please visit
<http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html>

(If you respond to the list, then please don't cc me)
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com

- Raw text -