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From: Vladimir G Ivanovic <vladimir AT acm DOT org>
Reply-To: Vladimir G Ivanovic <vladimir AT acm DOT org>
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Cc: soren AT wonderstorm DOT com
Subject: Re: "The PATH problem" 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:33:06 EST."
             <3A5F15A2 DOT F8D56ABC AT yahoo DOT com> 
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:02:38 -0800

Could you be confusing setting PATH with setting CYGWIN? A subsequent
message to this email list mentions that CYGWIN must be set before
cygwin1.dll is loaded.

---Vladimir

Vladimir G. Ivanovic                    http://www.leonora.org/~vladimir
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Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447                                 +1 650 678 8014

"EB" == Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> writes:

  EB> 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".
  >>

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

  EB> Cheers, Earnie.

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