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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:38:06 -0500
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On 2/12/2011 11:27 AM, Paul Cantalupo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently I installed Cygwin on an XP computer at home. But when I
> execute Cygwin.bat (contents below), the bash shell does not read my
> ~/.profile (contents below).

Do you have either ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login in existence?
bash reads the *first* one only of .bash_profile, .bash_login, and
.profile that it finds, and it searches in the order I listed them.

Regards -- Eliot Moss

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