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From:	"John Morrison" <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
To:	"Tero Saarni" <terosaarni AT hotmail DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: 'system cannot find the file specified' when starting bash
Date:	Sun, 17 Aug 2003 16:21:18 +0100
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> From: Tero Saarni
> 
> Bash starts successfully but the error msg is a little bit annoying.
> It seems the reason is that Cygwin assumes I have printers in the
> system. /etc/profile runs regtool which prints the above error
> message if key cannot be found:
> 
> `regtool get '\user\Software\Microsoft\Windows 
> NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Device'
> 
> The error message disappears if adding "-q" (quiet) to parameters.
> 
> This might be a FAQ but I didn't succeed in finding it on the net.
> If not done already maybe it could be fixed in the next release?

Thanks, I've fixed it for the next version.

J.

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