Re: how to get an older version of cygwin

2004-03-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
1.3.2 is ancient history. It's dead. I doubt there's a mirror out there that carries it, and even if there was, most of the current packages won't work with it. What you want is to set your PS1 in bash properly. Something like export PS1='\h: `cygpath -w "$PWD"`> ' should do it. If you want

Re: how to get an older version of cygwin

2004-03-03 Thread Larry Hall
There's really no "fix" for the behavior you see because it's not broken. 'cygpath' is your best bet to convert paths if you need it for some reason. 1.3.2 is an old, unsupported release so you won't be able to download it from any official site, though you may find it somewhere by searching the we

Re: how to get an older version of cygwin

2004-03-03 Thread Arindam Bhattacharya
Hi, thanks for the response. I am currently running 1.5.7(0.109/3/2 on XP. I also have 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) running on win 2000. in 1.3.2 if I do cd c:/ the bash shows c:/ but if id cd c:/ in 1.5.2 it shows me /cygdrive/c. ANy idea how to fix this or where I can download 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) thanks

Re: how to get an older version of cygwin

2004-03-03 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:54 PM 3/3/2004, you wrote: >hi christopher, > I was wondering how I can get an older version of >cygwin. I neet the one which is CYGWIN_NT-5.0. the current release is >CYGWIN_NT-5.1. Actually, you're reporting what 'uname -s' provides, which just tells you which version of

how to get an older version of cygwin

2004-03-03 Thread Arindam Bhattacharya
hi christopher, I was wondering how I can get an older version of cygwin. I neet the one which is CYGWIN_NT-5.0. the current release is CYGWIN_NT-5.1. If I do a cd c:/ in that it doesn't show c:/ but /cygdrive/c which is causing a problem with perforce as perforce thinks that it i