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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:41:03 -0400
To: faifcn AT gmail DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: strange behavior of bash
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At 05:04 AM 9/21/2005, you wrote:
>Thank you Dave
>
>On 9/20/05, Dave Korn <dave <dot> korn <at> artimi <dot> com> wrote:
>                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>  This is important if you 
want people to reply to you.


>> >  I deleted some values in Windows Local Environment variable "PATH".
>> > My original "HOME" is c:/home/myname/. And then:
>
>What I deleted is "borland c" bin directory to avoid cygwin confusing
>two "make" tools. and maybe some other PATH variables which I believe
>set by some outdated software. It left as
>
>"%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;c:\matlab6p5\bin\win32;C:\PROGRA~1\ULTRAE~1;%HTC_PIC%\BIN;;C:\Program
>Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\bin\"
>
>There is nothing special, the same PC with same path variables run
>cygwin no problem. I just get confused why this behavior happens, and
>with invoke --login parameter.
>
>> 
>>   If that doesn't fix it, -> http://cygwin.com/problems.html, particularly
>> the bit about sending your cygcheck output (as an *attachment*, please!).
>
>output is in attachment as "cygcheck.out". I am running cygwin in
>University domain controled windows 2k pro. So lot of parameters are
>pre set by IT.
>
>Many thanks for your help. 


It appears that one of the directories that you removed was 
'c:\cygwin\bin'.  If you want to run bash from the DOS prompt, add this 
directory back to your path.


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