From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: gnu-win32 26 Jan 1998 06:27:30 -0800 Message-ID: <19980126142551.24332.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: kerfoot AT edgenet DOT net Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Ian, There are two major differences between the UNIX filesystem and the MSDOS FAT filesystem that will drive you crazy. First, the MSDOS filesystem is case insensitive when looking for the file name where UNIX is case sensitive. These tools try to immulate UNIX with some degree of confusion. Second, the directory separator in MSDOS is a \ while in UNIX it is a /. The problem with this is that the \ in UNIX is an escape indicator and a / in MSDOS is a switch indicator to the DOS based programs. To set DOS environment variables from the MSDOS shell you would type SET VARIABLE=VALUE. I suggest that you set the PATH variable like this "SET PATH=c:\gnuwin32\b18\H-i386-cygwin32\bin;%PATH%". The %PATH% resolves the current value of the PATH variable. The path separator in MSDOS is a ;. Now do "SET HOME=C:\" and "SET TMP=C:\TEMP. Once you have the PATH, HOME and TMP variable set, you should be able to execute bash. >From: "Ian Kerfoot" >To: >Cc: >Subject: gnu-win32 >Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:46:23 -0500 > >I have been trying to install gnu-win32 on my computer which runs Windows >95. The installation instructions say to set three environment variables >and update the path. I have enterred several lines into my AUTOEXEC.BAT >file, and it has accomplished nothing. The trouble is, I only know Unix, >and the notation for setting environment variables in MS-DOS is a mystery >to me. Could you possibly mail me a copy of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, so I >could see what the exact notation is supposed to be? > > Ian Kerfoot > Hope this helps, - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".