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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:01:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: "Tackett, Galen" <Galen DOT Tackett AT dyncorp DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Open bash at the current explorer directory?
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Galen,

It should be /etc/profile (note the absense of ".") and ~/.bash_profile.
I think ~/.profile is used by ksh...
	Igor

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Tackett, Galen wrote:

> I must be missing something.
>
> I added the registry entries plus the profile entries, both for
> /etc/.profile and ~/.profile.
>
> Now, the right-button menu command "Open with command prompt" works just
> wonderfully (if the resulting cmd.exe window can actually be described with
> that word), but "Open with Cygwin shell (rxvt)" just gets me an error window
> showing (in the title bar) the path of the folder I tried to use, and the
> error message "This file does not have a program associated with it for
> performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control
> panel."
>
> (By the way, when John's message says .profile I assume he means
> .bash_profile since the registry mods invoke bash?  Out of sheer ignorance
> (I'm not a unix or shell weenie at all) I just added the .profile stuff to
> both files.)
>
> John Doucette wrote:
>
> > Sorry Frantisek et al,
> >
> > Mea culpa. You are correct.  I was not using a .profile at all, thanks for
>
> > pointing out the problem.  I have rearranged things and retested with a
> > .profile.  I placed
> >
> > (etc)

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