From: reader AT newsguy DOT com (Harry Putnam) Subject: Re: Another newbie onboard... 28 May 1998 04:17:30 -0700 Message-ID: References: <6uaZ4oaKpfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de> To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke) writes: > Hi Harry, > [...] > >So should ENV variables such as PS1 settings be but in cygnus.bat? I've > > You can have them there, you also can have the most important there and > all the others on a .bashrc. For a .bashrc to work, you then have to set > HOME correctly in your cygnus.bat. > If you have Windows NT, you can use the User Environment instead of a > cygnus.bat - same for an autoexec.bat in Windows 95. > > [...] > >(PATH and HOME). That seems to work but I don't really understand the > >syntax that win95 wants. > > Which syntax ? > set var=value ? Or am I misunderstanding you ? I meant in the autoexec.bat First thanks for your kindness and patience in helping me get a better understanding of what this is all about. I was a little confused about the syntax I've seen posted here and on the cygnus.bat and autoexec.bat. I hadn't run into the use of '%' signs before. (not very experienced with unix or windows) Looks a bit different from .bashrc or .bash_profile. My first attempts on autoexec.bat I used bad synax and managed to blind win95 to its own win.com file, by dorking up the 'Path' syntax. Gave me a bit of a start until I figured out what had happened. cygnus.bat @ECHO OFF SET MAKE_MODE=unix SET CYGFS=E:/em-home/local SET GCC_EXEC_PREFIX=E:\EM-HOME\LOCAL\H-I386~1\lib\gcc-lib\ SET TCL_LIBRARY=%CYGROOT%\share\tcl8.0\ SET GDBTK_LIBRARY=%CYGFS%/share/gdbtcl SET PATH=E:\EM-HOME\LOCAL\H-I386~1\bin;%PATH% bash SET CYGWIN32=tty notitle binmode autoexec.bat SET VXCLASSPATH=c:\VXtreme\client\applets SET CLASSPATH=%VXCLASSPATH%;%CLASSPATH% @echo off C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1\NAVBOOT.EXE /STARTUP C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 SET HOME=E:\em-home SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\Programs\super-notetab;C:\bin;E:\em-home\emacs-20.2.1\bin;E:\em-home\local\H-i386-cygwin32\bin SET PS1=Wn\w: Some of the vars looked unfamiliar as well. But I am beginning to catch on a little, now. Many thanks -- Harry Putnam reader AT newsguy DOT 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".