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> 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/
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