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Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:23:52 -0500
From: "Lee D. Rothstein" <l1ee057@veritech.com>
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Peter Rosin wrote:

 > Den 2009-02-07 00:37 skrev Lee D.Rothstein:

 >>  >>
 >>  >> "First, PATH must include the Windows path of the /bin, where 
typically
 >>  >>  both mintty.exe and cygwin1.dll' will be found. Remember, this 
is a"

 >> Here, I think I have the path right, since, the Windows equivalent 
of '/bin'
 >> is 'c:\Cygwin\bin', which means I don't understand the following comment
 >> at all:

 > My (minor) point was that from the mintty point of view, the fact
 > that /bin and /usr/bin are equivalent is a coincidence - it's a
 > Cygwin quirk. Since mintty installs in /usr/bin,

Not on my Vista 64b System! Everything is in /bin, (c:\_r\bin) NOTHING is
in /usr/bin. (c:\_r\usr\bin). I thought, I had remembered that, in prior
systems almost the reverse was true, but I checked before I wrote the last
reply (and checked again, just now).

As everyone has implied, all items in /bin, are accessible through /usr/bin.

Is my system different? Why? Pilot error?


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