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On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:16:15PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Couldn't it just replace the bash line with: >> >> if exist bash.exe goto ok >> echo **** bash.exe is missing - please install it >> pause >> :ok >> bash --login -i > >Well that would certainly work for the case of a missing bash. I guess >I was thinking that the marker file method would work for a wider range >of brokenness where for whatever reason the shell fails to start and/or >complete its initialization. Having never experienced this personally >I can't really come up with a set of possible scenarios of brokenness, >but it seems we get do get a lot of "bash window flashes briefly and >then disappears" reports. Are they all just missing bash.exe? That has always been my impression. Maybe I'm wrong. OTOH, would people complain bitterly if we just put a pause at the end of cygwin.bat. That would be a very minimal change. I don't use cygwin.bat so I can't say how aggravating this would be. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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