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Re: find, ksh, and job control




>I'm running 95.
>I have to learn NT by next week:-).

Even on Win95, I will not suggest adding Cygwin to autoexec.bat.  Start
Cygwin using cygnus.bat.

I know a few users disagree.

>
>                                     David L. Painter
>                                     dpainter@prontomail.com
>                                     dpainter@lightspeed.net
>                                     ph: (559) 292-5366 * 3
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
>To: David's Lightspeed Email <dpainter@lightspeed.net>;
>cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
>Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 4:41 PM
>Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control
>
>
>>I think you should not use autoexe.bat and consig.sys on Win NT.  Are you
>>Win NT or Win 95/98?
>>
>>If you are on NT do not include Cygwin to PATH.  Best start Cygwin by
>>Cygnus.bat and do not add WinNT or Windows to PATH in Cygnus.bat.
>>
>>--
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David's Lightspeed Email <dpainter@lightspeed.net>
>>To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
>>Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 7:36 PM
>>Subject: find, ksh, and job control
>>
>>
>>>
>>>                                    March 13th, 1999
>>>
>>>All right, thanks everyone for the feedback.  Yes, the problem with
"find"
>>>was just that my path found the dos version first.  Following, Henry's
>>>suggesion, I changed this to gfind, and this has fixed the problem
>>>
>>>As regards job control, please disregard my previous message.  The BASH
>>>shell "fg", "bg" and "jobs" commands all seem to work fine, and I have no
>>>complaints except that my Ctrl-Z suspension doesn't work.
>>>
>>>Concerning the Ksh, it is actually pretty important that I get this one
>>>working today.  Corinna has suggested that I may have my Cygwin package
>>>installed improperly, but I do not think this is the case:
>>>
>>>    *The Cygwin directory is "cygwin" from the root.
>>>    *I've kept the original directory structure intact(yes, even the
>>>"H-i586-cygwin32" ones)
>>>    *The sh.exe and cygwin1.dll files have been copied to the "/bin"
>>>directory.
>>>    *My autoexec.bat file includes the Cygwin Binary
>>>directory(C:\cygwin\H-i586-cygwin32\bin\) in the path.
>>>        (I just found out yesterday that using %PATH% in this file can
>>cause
>>>some major memory problems. . . Does anyone else know more about this?}
>>>    *Autoexec.bat also adds the following line:"set TERM=CYGWIN"
>>>    *The config.sys file has the following line: "SHELL=C:\command.com
>>>/e:4096 /p"
>>>
>>>I added the config.sys line, due to the "out of environment space" error
>>>message.
>>>Should the SHELL variable here be /bin/sh.exe instead?
>>>
>>>I also have to learn NT and MS SQL in the next week before I start work.
>>>Wish me luck.
>>>
>>>Peace to you all.
>>>
>>>                                     David L. Painter
>>>                                     dpainter@prontomail.com
>>>                                     dpainter@lightspeed.net
>>>                                     ph: (559) 292-5366 * 3
>>>                                     fax:(559) 292-0410
>>>
>>>
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