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Subject: Re: cygwin.bat improvements (was Re: Cygwin on XP disapearing terminal     mystery)
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On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:16:15PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Couldn't it just replace the bash line with:
>>
>>  if exist bash.exe goto ok
>>  echo **** bash.exe is missing - please install it
>>  pause
>>  :ok
>>  bash --login -i
>
>Well that would certainly work for the case of a missing bash.  I guess
>I was thinking that the marker file method would work for a wider range
>of brokenness where for whatever reason the shell fails to start and/or
>complete its initialization.  Having never experienced this personally
>I can't really come up with a set of possible scenarios of brokenness,
>but it seems we get do get a lot of "bash window flashes briefly and
>then disappears" reports.  Are they all just missing bash.exe?

That has always been my impression.  Maybe I'm wrong.

OTOH, would people complain bitterly if we just put a pause at the end
of cygwin.bat.  That would be a very minimal change.

I don't use cygwin.bat so I can't say how aggravating this would be.

cgf

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