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 Message-ID: <42C33D4A.87798A42@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:31:06 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: Emacs 21.3.50 problem on XP References: <45646FD3.468698C1.0AEB362B@netscape.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Report: -5.9/5.0 ---- Start SpamAssassin results * -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts * -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list ---- End SpamAssassin results X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Dharanyava@netscape.net wrote: > Result: setting CYGWIN=tty in a Win Cmd32 shell and running bash/Cygwin > works properly. Is the indication, then, that I should set this as a Win > environment variable instead of it being in my .bash_profile? It has to be set before bash starts. You can do that by editing the cygwin.bat file, editing the environment variables in Windows, or any other method along those lines. Setting it in .bash_profile or any other rc file sourced by bash will not work. Brian -- 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/