From:	"Ian" <Ian AT junk DOT net>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	DOS to Bash
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Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:00:22 -0400
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Hi,
    I need to be straightened out on how to start Bash from win98.  What I
do is to click on a shortcut to a DOS bat file which sets up a few needed
paths and other stuff and eventually gives the command "bash -i".  That
seemed to work well but I'm wondering now that I'm doing more with bash if
it's correct?

    For example my _bash_login is not executed only _bashrc.  According to
the O'Reilly book .bash_profile (or .bash_login) should be executed and
.bashrc when subshells are needed.  So I'm wondering if I'm running bash as
a subshell of DOS and not as the main shell.  Does it matter?

        Regards Ian.

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