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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:19:04 -0500
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Bob Rossi wrote on Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:10 AM:
> I'd like to know if anyone knows if it is possible to start the msys
> environment from a cygwin shell? I'm ssh'ing into a windows machine,
> which gives me a cygwin shell. I've tried a lot of things, and can't
> get an msys environment.   
> 
> Even if I remove every environment variable except for PS1, and then
> run 'cmd' and then cd to C:\msys\1.0 and the run .\msys.bat, I end up
> back in cygwin somehow.  
> 
> Any suggestions?

No idea, but this might help:
http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-usingwithcygwin

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