X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:00:39 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?) Message-ID: <20090211060039.GA13097@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4990DA52.9050900@tlinx.org> <4990E0BF.1010502@cygwin.com> <4990EC89.8070901@tlinx.org> <4991004F.1080006@cygwin.com> <4991E1CC.9060804@tlinx.org> <4991EB3C.3090800@cygwin.com> <49920C32.7050507@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:22:21PM -0600, Tim McDaniel wrote: >Well, not in *this* special case, because "like this" is trying to find >the Cygwin installation in the first place; if it knew where regtool >was, it would already know where Cygwin was installed ... You sort of have to know where "reg" or any other program is located if you want to run it too. If this is really a terrifically big issue then just add the cygwin bin directory to your windows path directory and regtool, mount, and all sorts of other programs will be available to you. 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/