Re: can't open cygwin from shortcut

2016-04-25 Thread Doug McIlroy
The nonworking "Cygwin64 Terminal" shortcut is indeed a bug in CYGWIN_NT-10.0 version 2.4.1(0.293/5/3). Adding .exe to the pathname for mintty fixes it. Thanks to Brian Inglis for telling me how to do that. Doug McIlroy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: can't open cygwin from shortcut

2016-04-23 Thread Brian Inglis
Doug McIlroy writes: > On a Microsoft Surface running CYGWIN_NT-10.0 version 2.4.1(0.293/5/3) > I cannot start Cygwin from the desktop shortcut. It fails to find > mintty. On failure, it proffers a browsing window focused on /bin. > Clicking on mintty in that window does not work. I can start > Cyg

Re: can't open cygwin from shortcut

2016-04-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Doug McIlroy writes: > On a Microsoft Surface running CYGWIN_NT-10.0 version 2.4.1(0.293/5/3) > I cannot start Cygwin from the desktop shortcut. It fails to find > mintty. On failure, it proffers a browsing window focused on /bin. > Clicking on mintty in that window does not work. I can start > Cyg

Re: can't open cygwin from shortcut

2016-04-23 Thread John Ruckstuhl
Hmmm, that name sounds familiar... (googles "doug mcilroy unix") Yep. Just think of the karma for answering Prof. McIlroy's question... I wish I could :) Regards, John Ruckstuhl Douglas McIlroy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_McIlroy Wikipedia Malcolm Dougl