Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Soren Andersen" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 05:13:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: "The PATH problem" Reply-to: soren@wonderstorm.com Message-ID: <3A5E927F.7009.7C9D21F@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) On 12 Jan 2001, an entity purporting to be Schaible, Joerg [Schaible, Joerg ] wrote [regarding RE: "The PATH problem"] > Hi Soren, > > >Cygwin doesn't allow modification or unset on the PATH variable after > >login, so it has to be set right from 'Doze before bash gets fired up, no? > > Who has told you that? This is simply not true, but it depends on the shell > you're using. I am *quite* sure I just read it in documentation, but I am sorry, I have been multitasking at least a half-dozen projects for days now, and I do not have a pointer to cite to the location of this statement. I exhaustively tried to alter my PATH inside bash (using statements identical to what you cited) before I found the documentary confirmation that it doesn't work. "YMMV". regards, soren andersen -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple