Re: Adding cygwin/bin to dos path

2003-09-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 Fergus wrote: > > Put it at the end so that the UNIX commands > > wouldn't override MS commands with the same > > name. > > > My question is, was this a foolish and stupid thing > > to do? > > In my opinion: putting it in the PATH is a wise and sensible thing to do, > giving you

Re: Adding cygwin/bin to dos path

2003-09-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Brock Filer wrote: > I installed Cygwin a couple hours ago and I added the > bin directory to my autoexec.bat path setting. Put it > at the end so that the UNIX commands wouldn't override > MS commands with the same name. > Mostly I did this so I can call a bash script from a >

Re: Adding cygwin/bin to dos path

2003-09-04 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brock Filer wrote: I installed Cygwin a couple hours ago and I added the bin directory to my autoexec.bat path setting. Put it at the end so that the UNIX commands wouldn't override MS commands with the same name. What MS commands? :-) There are so few of them! Personally I put C:\Cygwin\Bin fi

Re: Adding cygwin/bin to dos path

2003-09-04 Thread fergus
> Put it at the end so that the UNIX commands > wouldn't override MS commands with the same > name. > My question is, was this a foolish and stupid thing > to do? In my opinion: putting it in the PATH is a wise and sensible thing to do, giving you access to all this excellent stuff. But (my recom

Adding cygwin/bin to dos path

2003-09-04 Thread Brock Filer
I installed Cygwin a couple hours ago and I added the bin directory to my autoexec.bat path setting. Put it at the end so that the UNIX commands wouldn't override MS commands with the same name. Mostly I did this so I can call a bash script from a java program without a lot of OS sniffing. My quest