Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted... On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Mark Paulus wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:33:23 -0400 (EDT), PoWah Wong wrote: > > >I want to setup my PATH variable by following the > >instructions of "Chapter 4. Using Cygwin/X, section > >startx" at http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html. > > > >After doing > >PATH=%PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin > >my original path is lost. > > > >I use windows XP SP2. > >[snip] > > The statement should read: > PATH=%PATH%:/usr/X11R6/bin > > Note the trailing % on PATH. That is a "Windowism". No, actually, since the example is in a shell, the statement should read PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin" (note the quotes and the '$'). I'd update the HTML in CVS, but it looks like a generated file, and I couldn't find the source. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/