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RE: Having problems to start cygwin
- To: Peter Buckley <peter dot buckley at cportcorp dot com>, Karl Johan Larsson <i96karla at island dot liu dot se>
- Subject: RE: Having problems to start cygwin
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:03:54 +0100
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <50A89B19AEAAD411B9D200A0C9FB5699E88D76@craius.cportcorp.com>
On Tuesday 3 Jul 01, Peter Buckley writes:
> This is probably in the faq or readme on installation.
> Did you follow all the instructions to install?-
>
> DOCS: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
>
> My first bet would be that you don't have C:\cygwin\bin
> in your system PATH variable.
This should not be necessary.
> I don't have win2k, so I don't know if setting the PATH
> variable is the same as NT- but I am pretty sure you
> will need to reboot for the new setting to take effect.
>
> In NT, I right click on "My Computer" and choose "Properties."
> Then I click the "Environment" tab, and select the PATH variable
> from the list of system variables. I add C:\cygwin\bin at the end,
> separated by a semi-colon.
Again, this should not be necessary. PATH should be set automatically
by /etc/profile.
As to the original problem:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Johan Larsson [mailto:i96karla@island.liu.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 9:19 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Having problems to start cygwin
>
> I downloaded cygwin (all packages) on to my machine just to get to
> know the bash shell a bit better (I don't have access to a UNIX
> machine so I figured that this was my way to learn something about
> sell scripting). I am running Win 2000 on this machine
>
> Installation seemed to work fine but when I try to start the
> application (by executing the cygwin.bat-file from cmd prompt) i get
> the return message:
> 'bash' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
> program or batch file.
The code in C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat (or wherever it resides for your
installation) should ensure that 'bash' is found. What's in there?
Does it correspond with where you installed Cygwin?
Regards,
David
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