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 Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:02:24 +0200 From: Christophe DOT Delarue AT reuters DOT com Subject: Re: bash shell just flash and disappear To: Yi Chu Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i94F3fxa020347 I think you try to execute direct bash.exe without the interactive parameter, like proposed in the cygwin.bat : bash --login -i -i indicate "echo a prompt and wait for command" -login "indicate, first time bash in executed, parse the .profile" Yi Chu cc: Sent by: Subject: bash shell just flash and disappear cygwin-owner AT cygw in.com Header: Internal Use Only 10/04/2004 16:56 I am new to cygwin, and just installed it.  When I launch cygwin, the bash shell window just flashes once and then disappears.  I remember reading somewhere that there is a windows setting that fixes that, but I do not remember the details and can't find that article anymore.  I am on WIndows 2000.  Please help. yi _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com Get closer to the financial markets with Reuters Messaging - for more information and to register, visit http://www.reuters.com/messaging Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/