Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Matthew O. Persico" To: , CC: Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 23:35:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030510030723.63631.qmail@web10102.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <200359233557.543088@mopxp> Subject: Re: Wanted X, got Perl - operator error or prequisiste Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h4A3Zxk06245 On Sat, 10 May 2003 05:07:23 +0200 (CEST), Sylvain Petreolle wrote: >You dont have to put C:\opt\cygwin\bin in your PATH. Not when running under Cygwin - this is true. But, I want to use Cygwin programs w/o starting up a bash shell. That's why I add the Cygwin stuff to my DOS path. Under bash, I end up with redundant path entries at the start of the PATH. No biggie. matthew@mopxp ~ $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/opt/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/opt/asperl/bin/:/cygdrive/c/PVSW/BIN:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Syst em32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/DLLShared:/cygdrive/c/MSVS/Tools/WinNT:/cygdrive/c/MSVS/MSDev98/Bin:/cygdrive/c/MSVS/Too ls:/cygdrive/c/VC98/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin -- Matthew O. Persico -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/