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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 14:54:12 +1000 (EST)
From: luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
Subject: RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?
To: Siegfried Heintze <siegfried AT heintze DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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On  6 Oct, Siegfried Heintze 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 

It's not necessary, unless you might also run other Bourne shells.

If you are, then it makes sense to use .profile instead of
..bash_profile (just don't use any bash extensions there).

BTW, if you are appearing as Administrator, and you're actually logging
into a domain, it probably means you need to run mkpasswd -d and add
the output to /etc/passwd (mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd).

luke


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