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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:41:50 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: No longer works.Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR>
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 04:30:40PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
>> Sent: 05 October 2004 16:04
>
>> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:26:18AM +0200, David Baron wrote:
>> >
>> >This was the exact thing that happened to another poster on 
>> the same digest. 
>> >The batch file containing a cd the ..\cygwin\bin and a bash 
>> -i -login simply 
>> >flashes closing immediately.
>> 
>> Indicating that bash.exe probably doesn't even exist and that maybe
>> someone has done a "Download From the Internet" rather than 
>> an "Install  From the Internet".
>
>  If so, where did the cygwin.bat come from?

I thought that the cygwin.bat file was created regardless but I
just tried it and that is not the case.  Sorry about that.

It may still be possible to cause this behavior by judicious use
of downloading + installing, but surely the OP would have reported
if they did anything like that.

cgf

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