i don't use the batch-file anymore.As a new user I wanted to customize cygwin.bat to my system, which uses 4dos as the shell and only maintains command.com as an antique. W98 BTW.I found that various commands wouldn't work! The reason was that command.com was being called in the .pif file. I simply changed the .pif to specify "%comspec%" in place of "c:\windows\command.com". Is there any reason setup shouldn't do this in the initial creation? Since the .pif files are of some peculiar structure I had to use explorer and the fursluginner mouse to make this change.
i changed the shortcut to execute bash.exe --login diretly, which avoids a stupid question by cmd.exe after bash exists and Ctrl-C was pressed:
Abort Execution (Y/N)
text may be different in englisch (using german windows)
i don't know, if this work for you, but instead of changing the batch-file, you could change /etc/profile which is the first script bash.exe executes (when run with the --login paramter)
starting bash without a batch-file also avoids the idle cmd.exe or commmand.com process :-)
BTW: why is cygwin installed with that batch-file, and why doesn't the setup create shortcuts to the command "bash.exe --login" but to cygwin.bat?
Has this been done for some reason?
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