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From: "Michael A. Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
To: "Stephen Smith" <ischis2 AT home DOT com>, "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <3B38B75C DOT 7FBB1B24 AT home DOT com>
Subject: Re: bash shell isn't inheriting the path from windows anymore
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:33:49 -0700
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It still works that way here.  Perhaps something at your site is resetting
the path when you start bash.

A non-exhaustive list of likely suspects is: /cygwin.bat, /etc/profile,
~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Smith" <ischis2 AT home DOT com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 09:25
Subject: bash shell isn't inheriting the path from windows anymore


> It used to be that if your path was
PATH=C:\somedirectory;C:\someotherdirectory, your path would contain those
> directories.
>
> Why doesn't bash inherit those directories and how can I put back the
previous behaviour?




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