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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 22:09:28 GMT
> >
> > At present DJGPP is in the path, so I can use those utilities from
> > anywhere.  I was thinking of an alias that did opened a 4dos
> > window with a /c cygwin.bat, which in turn executed a setlocal,
> > revised the path, called bash, etc.  I guess the 4dos aliases will
> > be inhibited in bash.  It looks as if something is going to be
> > awkward somewhere.
> 
> I think Cygwin installation creates a shortcut on the desktop that
> does this for you.
> 
> > I avoid the rodents as far as possible.
> 
> You can invoke a shortcut without the mouse, via keyboard only.

That is what I have done so far.  I copied the desktop pif file to
the cygwin dir, and created an alias that executes "start
<path>cygwin.pif".  That in turn calls COMMAND (it wasn't
generated to call 4DOS for some reason) to execute cygwin.bat,
which changes dirs and executes bash.  whew.  Now I can play with
those entities.

The cygwin setup program is a bear.  It seems to have no way to
tell how much you are asking to download, and of controlling
detail.  I still haven't found gcc / make / gdb in it.  I asked
for editors and got both vim and emacs, plus I think other
things.  Ticking that funny little icon is NOT obvious for
selection.  It needs at least a modicum of online help.

The object is to have it co-exist with DJGPP/W98/4DOS in such a
manner that I don't have to think about where what is and why.

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