From: "Alain.Culos -- "@bigfoot.com (Alain CULOS) Subject: Re: Newbie questions.... 24 Mar 1998 10:28:39 -0800 Message-ID: <3516BE14.A62C7F4B.cygnus.gnu-win32@bigfoot.com> References: <09DB74475204D1119C8200805F19D00301474E20 AT aeromsg1 DOT ball DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: "Nagle, Adrian" Cc: GNU-WIN32 Project Hi Adrian, I do not know about the best doc, but one way (the only one ?) to set your $HOME is put that statement in your .bat file : set HOME = ... Hope this helps (By the time I reply, hundreds may have replied already ...), Al. Nagle, Adrian wrote: > I am interested in the CYGWIN-32 project. Since at work, I must use NT, > I keep pulling hairs out when the ls command doesn't work. Fortunately > I found CYGWIN-32 and the bash shell. That seems to solve my problem. > > However, some questions. I've tried to find the information on the web, > but haven't been successful. How does bash work in CYGWIN-32? I can't > figure out how to set the $HOME variable. I have my .bash_profile and > .bashrc in my home directory to configure my environment, but executing > the cygnus.bat file (to start bash) will not source those files and it > puts me in the desktop directory. How do I configure bash so that it > sources my config files? > > Or, better yet, what is the best link for the documentation? That could > answer more of my questions (i.e. getting g77 to work). > > Thanks for the help. > > Adrian > > -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- > Adrian Nagle Tele: 303-939-6518 > Thermal Engineer FAX: 303-939-5166 > Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. > Boulder, Colorado > http://www.ball.com/aerospace/batchp.html > > - > 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". -- ANTI SPAM / ANTI ARROSAGE COMMERCIAL : Pour me répondre, veuillez enlever les deux moins et les deux espaces de mon adresse. To answer me, please take out both minus signs and both spaces from my address. - 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".