From: "deckerben" <deckerben AT freenet DOT de>
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Subject: Re: _bashrc somewhere else?
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 04:44:38 +0200
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"Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
news:3D2F5A9A DOT 61162235 AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk...

> "When bash is started non-interactively,  to  run  a  shell
> script, for example, it looks for the variable BASH_ENV in
> the environment, expands its value if  it  appears  there,
> and  uses the expanded value as the name of a file to read
> and execute.  Bash behaves as  if  the  following  command
> were executed:
>        if [ -n "$BASH_ENV" ]; then . "$BASH_ENV"; fi
> but  the  value of the PATH variable is not used to search
> for the file name."

I did read that.

So what I understood from that is that I should define %BASH_ENV% like
%DJGPP% in the DOS environment. That is what what I think I have been trying
to do. What could be wrong with:

set BASH_ENV=D:\user\DJGPP\etc\profile

...when D:\user\DJGPP\etc\profile is exactly the same file sas the
%HOME%\_bashrc, which works for me? Maybe I misunderstood the man page?

Ben