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Subject:	How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?
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I've tried this:

export PATH=`echo $PATH`:/newdir/

And PATH contains the new dir, but after closing and reopening mintty 
(with cygserver stopped) changes are lost.

How to solve that?

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