On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I like putting c:\;c:\Cygwin\bin;c:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin before > c:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem in my Windows path. > For the first tine I am using a computer that is administered by somebody > else (I hate this more than I can say) and in My Computer -> Properties -> > Advanced -> Environment variables I find the System-defined path (what I > want to come 2nd) necessarly precedes the User-defined path. Can anybody > help me fix this ordering? Thank you. Fergus
Either use bash or create a batch file and set the PATH there... E.g., CygCmd.bat: @echo off set PATH=c:\;c:\Cygwin\bin;c:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH% cd %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% %SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/