Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:25:51 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: net release setup.exe Message-ID: <20000418212551.B11994@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <20000418133619.11533.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com> <38FD0A3C.CFB68AD5@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <38FD0A3C.CFB68AD5@pobox.com>; from john.turner@pobox.com on Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 09:22:04PM -0400 On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 09:22:04PM -0400, John A. Turner wrote: >Earnie Boyd wrote: > >> Setup.exe is a non-cygwin program working with cygwin. Having tty set on when >> communicating between cygwin and non-cygwin programs has always been a cause >> for problems. >> >> > after removing the environment variable it works ok. >> >> See I told you. ;^) Where do/did you have the CYGWIN environment variable >> defined? AFAIK, setup.exe is meant to be run from the DOS command prompt. > >wait, does this mean that CYGWIN shouldn't be set in autoexec.bat? I've >certainly never heard that > >and I prefer setting lots of env vars there, even on Win2k (and NT before >that), since I prefer editing a file to using the GUI to set env vars So do I. Setting the CYGWIN environment variable in autoexec.bat is certainly acceptable. I've modified setup.exe to unset CYGWIN before it does anything requiring a cygwin program. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com