Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/02/06/18:37:55
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:04:36AM +0100, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> On 2009-02-05 20:47 Lee D.Rothstein wrote:
>>> Please, if you would, review the attached 'man' page -- 'mintty.1'.
>>> Andy Koppe intends to fold it into the 0.3.6 MinTTY release.
>>> Comments, corrections, addtitions to this list, please.
>>> 'man ./mintty.1.gz' will render the file (in the current directory)
>>> without "installing" the page.
>> "3. Make sure that the Windows file spec for the folder that contains
>> both cygwin1.dll and mintty.exe (typically, c:/Cygwin/usr/bin) are
>> on the PATH variable, in the Windows System or User environment
>> variables space."I
>>
>> I would say that the typical location is C:\Cygwin\bin.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I have changed the text to 'C:\Cygwin\bin', correcting two errors by me:
* path
* path delimitor
Thanks, Peter.
BTB, the reason that I use the word "typically", is because Cygwin can be
installed in other directories (e.g., in my system, "root" is at 'c:\_r'),
not because I thought a different directory besides 'bin' would have the
executable.
>> Later in the document:
>>
>> "First, PATH must include the Windows path of the /bin, where typically
>> both mintty.exe and cygwin1.dll' will be found. Remember, this is a"
Here, I think I have the path right, since, the Windows equivalent of '/bin'
is 'c:\Cygwin\bin', which means I don't understand the following comment
at all:
>> I would say the Window path of /usr/bin here, since that is where the
>> package is installed (but since /usr/bin is typically mirrored to /bin
>> so that's perhaps a minor point).
In both cases, I'm talking about invoking 'mintty' from Windows, not Cygwin.
Windows can only "see" the excutables in /bin (through 'c:\Cygwin\bin' NOT
through 'c:\Cygwin\usr\bin'), however, and we're talking about what Windows
can "see" when you "fire up" the 'mintty' shortcut.
-- Peter?
> /usr/bin is not in any way a Windows path so I don't think there is any
> reason to change this.
Christopher? Did I create too much confusion by my other errors?
I doubt that any/all of the above are the only things wrong with the
doc. ;-)
Thanks for the help.
Lee
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