Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "John Morrison" To: Subject: RE: Aliases no longer defined? Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 20:42:34 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030401182945.GA4676@bitstream.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal > From: Peter Davis > > What should it be? I explicitly set HOME to be C:\home in Windows, > for the benefit of emacs, etc. I've done this for years, so it seems > to be unrelated to the current problem. In fact, I just checked, and > the results of these commands are the same on my old Win2000 machine, > where .bashrc worked. Hi, You don't actually need to explicitly set HOME anymore, cygwin's come on over the years ;) Somebody (pardon - I've deleted the mail) correctly said, you need to add a . ~/.bashrc (or use source rather than .) to your ~/.bash_profile Cygwin doesn't run ~/.bashrc by default - as the bash manual recommends. It's on the 'todo' list to create a skeleton ~/.bash_profile, but I've not got round to making it work correctly, sorry. Oh, and alias in ~/.bash_profile doesn't (I believe) work, don't know why. You can still set your HOME, there's nothing (that I know of!) wrong with doing so. J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/