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Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:46:01 +1000 (EST)
From:	luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
Subject:	Re: how to make cygwin run under shells other than bash
To:	Damien Suttle <Damien_Suttle AT brown DOT edu>
Cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<200307250105.h6P15OZ20054@perseus.services.brown.edu>
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Message-Id:	<20030725034601.7F08034C47@nevin.research.canon.com.au>

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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