X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: executing an executable References: From: Markus E L Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:48:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Cole Radcliffe's message of "Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:36:31 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 "Cole Radcliffe" wrote: > Type ./executable or set your PATH variable to include "." (the latter > is usually not recommended, even in cygwin, I think). > > And try to read up about PATH. > > Regards -- Markus > > I tried "set PATH=.:$PATH" and that did not work. When I echoed the > $PATH I realized that that command had no effect. What am I doing > wrong? BTW: Please consider improving you quoting. For a moment I thought my MUA had been acting up again and I sent a mail with your address in the From field. :-( Regards -- Markus -- 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/