An observation which should help. See http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg01037.html for the problem. As said, COMSPEC is set:
TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP PROMPT=$p$g winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM DIRCMD=/o:gne windir=C:\WINDOWS BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 but missing in cygwin environment: !C:=C:\daten\c\cygwin TMP=/tmp TEMP=/tmp PROMPT=$p$g WINBOOTDIR=C:\WINDOWS PATH=/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND DIRCMD=/o:gne WINDIR=C:\WINDOWS BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 CMDLINE=myset PATH=/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND TERM=cygwin HOME=/home/ib But now something odd! If I do: set PATH=%PATH%;DOES_NOT_MATTER I suddenly get: !C:=C:\daten\c\cygwin TMP=/tmp TEMP=/tmp PROMPT=$p$g WINBOOTDIR=C:\WINDOWS COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM DIRCMD=/o:gne WINDIR=C:\WINDOWS BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 PATH=/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND:DOES_NOT_MATTER PATH=/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND:DOES_NOT_MATTER TERM=cygwin HOME=/home/ib and COMSPEC reappers! This only works, if setting PATH, no other environment variable change (or setting of a new one) will cause COMSPEC to reappear. Strange, but should help to track down this bug. Ingo -- 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/
