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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:51:19AM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote:
>What Csaba said. Also, MSYS's bin directory does appear in there
>(/cygdrive/c/msys/1.0/bin), but Cygwin's is before it, so that's fine.
>Hence, as mentioned before, you need to check whether you do actually
>have Cygwin's vi and make installed, e.g. using the 'which' command.

Fine is a relative term here.  Mixing Cygwin with some other application
which provides similar utilities is bound to create confusion.

cgf

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