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Achim Gratz wrote:
> Christopher Faylor writes:
>> I'll just reiterate what Daniel said again: We can't make things like
>> cmd or notepad stop working.  That would be a disaster.
>
> Yes, and nobody proposed otherwise.
>
>> I wasn't really following the discussion, and don't really want to check
>> stuff out in git to see what's going on, but if the proposed change just
>> makes it possible for purists to remove the Windows PATH from the Cygwin
>> one however that's great.
>
> OK, here it is again in a nutshell, it has two parts:
>
> 1. instead of adding the windows PATH in /etc/profile (which doesn't
> need it _at all_), just record it there into ORIGINAL_PATH.

But I already have my own ORIGINAL_PATH set for my cygwin environment 
for my own use

No joy!!

LA


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