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From: "David's Lightspeed Email" <dpainter AT lightspeed DOT net>
To: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi AT InspirePharm DOT Com>,
        <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:26:23 -0800
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                                    March 13th, 1999

I have added the Cygwin path to my Autoexec.bat PATH variable.
This way, I can can find the Cygwin tools regardless of location.
Normally, though, I do start Cygwin by using Cygwin.bat,
but all this really does anyways is launch a SH shell, right?

                                     David L. Painter
                                     dpainter AT prontomail DOT com
                                     dpainter AT lightspeed DOT net
                                     ph: (559) 292-5366 * 3
                                     fax:(559) 292-0410
-----Original Message-----
From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi <Ssiddiqi AT InspirePharm DOT Com>
To: David's Lightspeed Email <dpainter AT lightspeed DOT net>;
cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control


>
>>I'm running 95.
>>I have to learn NT by next week:-).
>
>Even on Win95, I will not suggest adding Cygwin to autoexec.bat.  Start
>Cygwin using cygnus.bat.
>
>I know a few users disagree.
>
>>
>>                                     David L. Painter
>>                                     dpainter AT prontomail DOT com
>>                                     dpainter AT lightspeed DOT net
>>                                     ph: (559) 292-5366 * 3
>>                                     fax:(559) 292-0410
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi <Ssiddiqi AT InspirePharm DOT Com>
>>To: David's Lightspeed Email <dpainter AT lightspeed DOT net>;
>>cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
>>Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 4:41 PM
>>Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control
>>
>>
>>>I think you should not use autoexe.bat and consig.sys on Win NT.  Are you
>>>Win NT or Win 95/98?
>>>
>>>If you are on NT do not include Cygwin to PATH.  Best start Cygwin by
>>>Cygnus.bat and do not add WinNT or Windows to PATH in Cygnus.bat.
>>>
>>>--
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: David's Lightspeed Email <dpainter AT lightspeed DOT net>
>>>To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
>>>Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 7:36 PM
>>>Subject: find, ksh, and job control
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>                                    March 13th, 1999
>>>>
>>>>All right, thanks everyone for the feedback.  Yes, the problem with
>"find"
>>>>was just that my path found the dos version first.  Following, Henry's
>>>>suggesion, I changed this to gfind, and this has fixed the problem
>>>>
>>>>As regards job control, please disregard my previous message.  The BASH
>>>>shell "fg", "bg" and "jobs" commands all seem to work fine, and I have
no
>>>>complaints except that my Ctrl-Z suspension doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>>Concerning the Ksh, it is actually pretty important that I get this one
>>>>working today.  Corinna has suggested that I may have my Cygwin package
>>>>installed improperly, but I do not think this is the case:
>>>>
>>>>    *The Cygwin directory is "cygwin" from the root.
>>>>    *I've kept the original directory structure intact(yes, even the
>>>>"H-i586-cygwin32" ones)
>>>>    *The sh.exe and cygwin1.dll files have been copied to the "/bin"
>>>>directory.
>>>>    *My autoexec.bat file includes the Cygwin Binary
>>>>directory(C:\cygwin\H-i586-cygwin32\bin\) in the path.
>>>>        (I just found out yesterday that using %PATH% in this file can
>>>cause
>>>>some major memory problems. . . Does anyone else know more about this?}
>>>>    *Autoexec.bat also adds the following line:"set TERM=CYGWIN"
>>>>    *The config.sys file has the following line: "SHELL=C:\command.com
>>>>/e:4096 /p"
>>>>
>>>>I added the config.sys line, due to the "out of environment space" error
>>>>message.
>>>>Should the SHELL variable here be /bin/sh.exe instead?
>>>>
>>>>I also have to learn NT and MS SQL in the next week before I start work.
>>>>Wish me luck.
>>>>
>>>>Peace to you all.
>>>>
>>>>                                     David L. Painter
>>>>                                     dpainter AT prontomail DOT com
>>>>                                     dpainter AT lightspeed DOT net
>>>>                                     ph: (559) 292-5366 * 3
>>>>                                     fax:(559) 292-0410
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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