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: <42E1EABD.5AB62B86@dessent.net> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:59:09 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: Synchronizing Windows & Cygwin Paths References: <81cec738050722205620ba727e@mail.gmail.com> 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 Rex Eastbourne wrote: > Is there a way to synchronize the Cygwin $PATH with the Windows Path, > so that I can run Windows applications from within my Bash shell (i.e. > typing "mathematica" will open the corresponding file, which is in > Program Files somewhere)? There is only one PATH environment variable. Cygwin translates it between Windows form and posix form depending on what kind of program it's invoking. If you add a directory to your Windows PATH it should be visible when you start a bash prompt because that inherits whatever PATH was set to (and adds /usr/bin etc. to it.) If this is not happening for you then you will need to provide more details as to your setup and what exactly is going on (i.e. the commands you type, what happens, what you expect to happen.) 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/