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Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:47:58 -0400
To:	Nathan Green <n8green AT gmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Setting up Environmental Variables
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At 08:28 PM 9/21/2004, you wrote:
>When running bash in cygwin, I am not able to run any commands.  From
>the cygwin/bin directory, I can execute commands like gcc and make. 
>I've set a couple of environmental variables:
>
>
>SET HOME="c:\cygwin"
>SET PATH="c:\cygwin\bin"
>
>Is this correct?  Are my environmental variables the problem?  


They are a problem, yes.  Don't set HOME.  Unless you know why you're 
doing it, you don't want it.  Setting your PATH as above is certainly not 
what you want either.  I'm going to recommend you undo things that you've
done and then read and follow:

>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


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with your problem descriptions, as we can only know what you tell us.



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