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Re: find, ksh, and job control
- To: "Rick Rankin" <rrankin@primenet.com>
- Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 20:22:29 -0500
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>But are there really enough command name conflicts to justify all that? I
>haven't really checked, but the only one I'm really aware of is find, and
>the windows find command is pretty useless anyway.
After a little back and forth writing you are basically syaing the same
thing
*Windows find is useless.*
If you have Windows Nt UNIX option pack installed then there are a whole lot
of conflicts if you add Cygwin to your WinNT path.
>Personally, I am
>perfectly happy putting the cygwin bin in my path ahead of windows or
winnt,
>but if there are other name clashes, perhaps another method is warranted.
>
If I rememebr correctly, a while ago, some user wrote he deleted cmd.exe and
replaced is by bash.exe. I think it is all personal preferences what you
like to see, do and are used to of.
>Rick
>--
>Rick Rankin
>rrankin@primenet.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi [mailto:Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com]
>> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 1999 6:01 PM
>> To: Rick Rankin; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
>> Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >> If you are on NT do not include Cygwin to PATH. Best start Cygwin by
>> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >Why not? I have it in my path because I want to be able to run cygwin
>> >commands from bash or from cmd.exe.
>> >
>>
>> I can also run cygwin commands from cmd.exe. For this purpose, I created
>> another batch file, called cygnus-dos.bat and replashed the *bash* with
>> *cmd* If I start NT cmd.exe using this my *cygnus-dos.bat* file,
>> I can use
>> all of my cygwin commands from cmd.exe prompt, and stll do not get any
>> conflicts.
>>
>>
>> --SMS
>>
>> >Rick
>> >--
>> >Rick Rankin
>> >rrankin@primenet.com
>> >
>>
>
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