--begin--reply--- Yeah Dave that would great thanks.. I mean I am quite happy now that I know what cygwin is and is all about; and I am quite happy to have the added bonus of a fully functional Linux type shell on top of my Win XP Pro install.
Having cygwin gives me the bonus of having that linux - shell in WinXP and all the tools that I installed along with it, [which is more-or less an entire linux os really apart from the servers]. And it does seem to be running ok, I get no errors on starting cygwin, and the ones I do get are from starting x-windows, and from what I can gather, are not to be worried about, at least according to the docs available at the site, and the users guide. Mind you having said that, doing a, "startx -windowmaker" or, "startx -fvwm2" or again something like, "XWin.exe -windowmaker" or similar, brings erros and doesn't work as expected.. So I basicaly need to just set it up ok, get all my enviroment variables setup right, get a mail client sorted + mail agent, so I can send and retrieve mail through cygwin as well XP. Then I can start to teach myself how to use the shell properly, which is what I wanted out cygwin. So any help in setting it up is greatly appreciated... Again thanks in advance... Nemes --end--reply-- On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:31:58 -0400, J. David Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nemes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Can anyone help with any of the above queries ??? > > > > Thanks in advance to all those with the patience to compose a reply.... > > > > Nemes > > > If no one has replied to this before I get to my work machine, where I have > been running Cygwin for years, I can send you a reply, and show you what my > .profile and .bashrc are set to, as well as some of my aliases. > > Quickly though: > > The two environment variable settings in XP are ones that are global, for all > users, and user specific. > > If you have installed software that everyone that logs on to that machine can > use, you set the environment in the global section. > > Conversely, if software has been installed that only one can use, you set the > environment in the specific user section. > > Anything you have set in the XP environments (global or user) will be > inherited when you start Cygwin. > > You can set environment va riables in the cygwin.bat file, or you can put them > in .profile or .bashrc. > > Sometimes, there are some funny rules about the system reading .profile and > .bashrc, but for the most part, I set almost all of my environment in .bashrc, > and I don't have any problems. > > Dave > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
