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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:33:06 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Soren Andersen wrote:
> 
> On 12 Jan 2001, an entity purporting to be Schaible, Joerg [Schaible, Joerg
> <Joerg DOT Schaible AT gft DOT com>] wrote [regarding RE: "The PATH problem"]
> 
> > Hi Soren,
> >
> > >Cygwin doesn't allow modification or unset on the PATH variable after
> > >login, so it has to be set right from 'Doze before bash gets fired up, no?
> >
> > Who has told you that? This is simply not true, but it depends on the shell
> > you're using.
> 
> I am *quite* sure I just read it in documentation, but I am sorry, I have
> been multitasking at least a half-dozen projects for days now, and I do not
> have a pointer to cite to the location of this statement.
> 
> I exhaustively tried to alter my PATH inside bash (using statements
> identical to what you cited) before I found the documentary confirmation
> that it doesn't work.
> 
>    "YMMV".
> 

YMMV???  Joerg is correct.  This is an impartial nature of the shell,
all shells, including command.com and cmd.exe.  I don't think that your
systems are a special case, but YMMV.

Cheers,
Earnie.

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