Re: How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically

2003-02-16 Thread Steve
Max Bowsher wrote: Steve wrote: I have some powertools/wintoys set up so that I can click on any folder in explorer and pull up a dos window that is initialized in that directory. When I type "bash" and get bash in these dos windows it is also initialized in that directory. I would like to sh

Re: How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically

2003-02-16 Thread Steve
Randall R Schulz wrote: Steve, I see. This will work if a simple invocation of "bash" with no options is acceptable. 1) Make sure Cygwin's /bin or /usr/bin directory are in your system-wide PATH. 2) Invoke "cygstart bash" (don't type the quotes, of course) A new window appears running a new i

Re: How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically

2003-02-16 Thread Max Bowsher
Steve wrote: > I have some powertools/wintoys set up so that > I can click on any folder in explorer and pull up a dos window that > is initialized in that directory. When I type "bash" and get bash in > these dos windows it is also initialized in that directory. I would > like to sharpen this

Re: How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically

2003-02-16 Thread Steve
Max Bowsher wrote: Steve wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Steve wrote: I have set up my path so that I can type "bash" in any dos window and get bash. I would like to set this up to be automatic, such that whenever I activate a window for dos, that dos window comes up with the command

Re: How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically

2003-02-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Steve (03-02-16 18:17 +0100) > Max Bowsher wrote: >> Steve wrote: >>> I have set up my path so that I can type "bash" in any dos window and >>>get bash. >>> >>>I would like to set this up to be automatic, such that whenever I >>>activate a window for dos, that dos window comes up with the command

Re: How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically

2003-02-16 Thread Cyber.Zombie
Agreed -- don't even bother with the command shell if you want to immediately go to bash... Max Bowsher wrote: Steve wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Steve wrote: I have set up my path so that I can type "bash" in any dos window and get bash. I would like to set this up to be automatic

Re: How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically

2003-02-16 Thread Max Bowsher
Steve wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: >> Steve wrote: >> >>> I have set up my path so that I can type "bash" in any dos window >>> and get bash. >>> >>> I would like to set this up to be automatic, such that whenever I >>> activate a window for dos, that dos window comes up with the command >> >>

Re: How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically

2003-02-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
Steve, I see. This will work if a simple invocation of "bash" with no options is acceptable. 1) Make sure Cygwin's /bin or /usr/bin directory are in your system-wide PATH. 2) Invoke "cygstart bash" (don't type the quotes, of course) A new window appears running a new instance of BASH. If you w

Re: How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically

2003-02-16 Thread Steve
Max Bowsher wrote: Steve wrote: I have set up my path so that I can type "bash" in any dos window and get bash. I would like to set this up to be automatic, such that whenever I activate a window for dos, that dos window comes up with the command ^ Please explain wh

Re: How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically

2003-02-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
Max, At 08:04 2003-02-16, Max Bowsher wrote: Steve wrote: > I have set up my path so that I can type "bash" in any dos window and > get bash. > > I would like to set this up to be automatic, such that whenever I > activate a window for dos, that dos window comes up with the command

Re: How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically

2003-02-16 Thread Max Bowsher
Steve wrote: > I have set up my path so that I can type "bash" in any dos window and > get bash. > > I would like to set this up to be automatic, such that whenever I > activate a window for dos, that dos window comes up with the command ^ Please explain what you mean by

How to make dos windows bring up BASH automatically

2003-02-16 Thread Steve
Hi; I'm running cygwin on windows 2000. I have set up my path so that I can type "bash" in any dos window and get bash. I would like to set this up to be automatic, such that whenever I activate a window for dos, that dos window comes up with the command to switch to bash already executed. I