* Christopher Faylor (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:43:04 -0500)> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:34:52PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> I think the only reason to use cygwin.bat is to set the cygwin > >> environment variable before bash starts. There's no way to do that > >> with a shortcut is there? > > > > In this case, it could be one of MinTTY's settings, because it can set up > > the environment before calling bash. > > > > For that matter, MinTTY could also provide GUI access to bash command line > > flags, a way to change the login shell by modifying /etc/passwd, etc. > > It would have to do that since the CYGWIN environment settings have to be > settable by the user.
They always are (through the GUI). The default Cygwin.bat file does not set any enviroment variables, so it is superfluous itself (a shortcut to "bash -li" would be better). Thorsten -- 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/
