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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:19:32 +0800
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Just Do It!

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:18:31 -0600, Siegfried Heintze
<siegfried AT heintze DOT com> wrote:
> I looked in c:\Cygwin\home\Administrator and could not find a .profile file
> using emacs. There was a .bash_profile file. Should I create a .profile
> file?
>  Thanks,
>    Siegfried
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of
> luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:38 PM
> To: Siegfried Heintze
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?
> 
> On  5 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> >  >Anyway, in your case it should be as simple as this:
> >  >
> >  >PATH="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin:$PATH"
> >  >
> >
> >  Where do I put this statement? .bashrc?
> 
> You could, but why not put it in ~/.profile so it's read just once by
> the login shell, and any child shells then have it in the environment,
> instead of having to do it themselves?
> 
> FRom memory, bash will look for ~/.bash_login, ~/.profile, ~/.login,
> (not sure if it's in that order), and use the first one it finds.
> 
> But it won't do this if $HOME was created by Cygwin "mkdir" instead of
> by Windows Explorer, due to some mysterious access permissions problem.
> 
> BTW, I use .profile because it's usable regardless of what (Bourne-like)
> shell you use.
> 
> luke
> 
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