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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:31:28 -0400
From: Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>
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To: "Senn, William" <william DOT senn AT ACS-INC DOT COM>
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Subject: Re: Startup in win32
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There is a file called "cygwin.bat" in your 
cygwin directory. It gets the start directory 
based on an environment variable that is set 
by /etc/profile, and kicks off 
a bash shell. 

Actually, this .bat file is how 
the cygwin shortcut works. Did you 
download all the packages with 
setup.exe?  

HTH,
Peter

"Senn, William" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I sincerely hope that this is an active list.  My question is this:
> Is there a  way to create a batch script or perl script in Windows NT that
> starts the cygwin bash shell and sets the starting directory? Something
> along the lines of (perl):
>         exec "c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash -dc:\\myStartDir" or die "bummer
> dude:$!\n";
> 
> or (bat):
>         start c:\cygwin\bin\bash -dc:\\myStartDir
> 
> where -d specifies the directory to start (I know -d isn't it, just tell me
> how).
> 
> Any and all assistance appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Will
> mailto:wdsenn AT home DOT com
> 
> btw: I know this is ignoring many security issues, consider this a
> single-user installation...
> 
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