X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:43:04 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MinTTY Message-ID: <20081231054304.GB17754@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <495917BA.1090401@gmail.com> <0E77A4429F494644A9C7CB6F6F3D2125@DFW5RB41> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A211B41DD8@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <20081230165106.GA5230@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <495AB264.8020800@gmail.com> <20081231010535.GA14257@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <495AF66C.4000608@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <495AF66C.4000608@etr-usa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:34:52PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I think the only reason to use cygwin.bat is to set the cygwin >> environment variable before bash starts. There's no way to do that >> with a shortcut is there? > > In this case, it could be one of MinTTY's settings, because it can set up > the environment before calling bash. > > For that matter, MinTTY could also provide GUI access to bash command line > flags, a way to change the login shell by modifying /etc/passwd, etc. It would have to do that since the CYGWIN environment settings have to be settable by the user. cgf -- 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/