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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:54:30 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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To: Mike Rushton <mrushton@ptd.net>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions
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Greetings, Mike Rushton!

Please don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU

> OK, I got it working ...  I have my home in an directory other that what 
> Cygwin defaults because other software run needs

> I thought my files were being overwritten ... but no - I was modifying 
> the wrong files.

> After I found the correct files and modified the .bash_profile 
> everything was fine.

> I was not aware of this .bash_profile and I was not aware of the source 
> command.   On the versions of Unix/Linux that I have used
> I would always do a .profile to execute the commands in it when I made 
> changes.

You've been pointed to the bash man page.
It is all explained there, English on black.

> So again I was making changes and the shell was not aware of the changes.

> Hey,  I've been using Cygwin for like 2 weeks ,,,

As has been said already, this is NOT a Cygwin question.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 12.02.2014, <15:52>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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