Subject: RE: "The system cannot find the file specified" error in /etc/profile
From: "John Morrison" <[email-masked]>
To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Cygwin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:45:41 +0100

Thanks, both this and the "too many arguments" have been fixed
in base-files 2.1-1

Update to the latest base-files (2.1-1) then start cygwin and

cp /etc/defaults/etc/profile /etc/profile

to get the fixes.  Thanks for taking the time to report though.

J.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]On Behalf
> Of Patrick J. LoPresti
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2003 8:12 pm
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: "The system cannot find the file specified" error in
> /etc/profile
> 
> 
> On a newly built Windows XP system with no printers configured, the
> registry key:
> 
>   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows 
> NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Device
> 
> ...does not exist.  This causes /etc/profile to emit this message
> every time it runs:
> 
>   Error (2): The system cannot find the file specified.
> 
> One possible fix is appended.
> 
>  - Pat
> 
> --- profile.orig	2003-08-20 15:01:13.000000000 -0400
> +++ profile	2003-08-20 15:06:27.000000000 -0400
> @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
>  # Define default printer
>  case "`uname -s`" in
>  CYGWIN_NT-*)
> -  PRINTER="`regtool get '\user\Software\Microsoft\Windows 
> NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Device' | 
> +  PRINTER="`regtool -q get '\user\Software\Microsoft\Windows 
> NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Device' | 
>      sed 's/,.*$//'`"
>    ;;
>  CYGWIN_9?-*)
> 
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