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Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:45:28 +0400
From:	Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, Achim Gratz!

>> People execute Windows programs using Cygwin all the time. With this
>> change, basic things like "cmd" and "notepad" will fail to work.
>> Working with Windows programs is the *point* of Cygwin. I really don't
>> think this change should go into the default startup scripts.

> The change is about giving users a choice.  You can now drop a script
> into profile.d that just does:

> PATH="${PATH}:${ORIGINAL_PATH}"

The point it, I don't want this.
My $PATH is set in Windows, and I do not modify it in startup scripts.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 23.08.2012, <00:44>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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