On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:22:21PM -0600, Tim McDaniel wrote: > >Well, not in *this* special case, because "like this" is trying to > >find the Cygwin installation in the first place; if it knew where > >regtool was, it would already know where Cygwin was installed ... > > You sort of have to know where "reg" or any other program is located > if you want to run it too.
It's in PATH by default on a Microsoft Windows system, at least on the Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP that I tested it on. > If this is really a terrifically big issue then just add the cygwin > bin directory to your windows path directory and regtool, mount, and > all sorts of other programs will be available to you. While that's a reasonable idea in general, in my particular case I can't necessarily depend on the user doing that, and on the main machine that I use, the administrator put mingw in the path. -- Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: t...@panix.com -- 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/
