On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:34:11AM -0600, L. D. Marks wrote: >Thanks. A slightly tortuous solution, but this works (after adding mount >to a limited set of executables). FYI, I used a ls /cygwin/cygwin.bat >to test for the existence of cygwin on the system.
Wouldn't checking for cygwin1.dll be an infinitely better test? >N.B., to include a snippet from startxwin.bat: > >REM The path in the CYGWIN_ROOT environment variable assignment assume >REM that Cygwin is installed in a directory called 'cygwin' in the root >REM directory of the current drive. You will only need to modify >REM CYGWIN_ROOT if you have installed Cygwin in another directory. For >REM example, if you installed Cygwin in \foo\bar\baz\cygwin, you will need >REM to change \cygwin to \foo\bar\baz\cygwin. startxwin.bat != cygwin This is just a convention used by one .bat file. It is not a universally understood convention throughout cygwin. -- 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/