> From: Warren Young > > 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. >
Yes, but there's the complication of "CYGWIN=" settings that have to be set before the Cygwin DLL even loads. I don't know how many of these 1.7 will obsolete, but it's something that probably requires some cogitation before implementing. > 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 could be glorious! Well, or overachieving ;-). For me it'd just be great to have a nice terminal that didn't require an X server and had Windows native-y configuration and copy/paste. We'll get to that 21st century yet! -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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/
