On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Weiqi Gao wrote: > On 8/31/05, William Creel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > I am attempting to run a Windows program from the Bash console. I > > have attempted modifying my path in the .bash_profile file in my home > > directory with the following line: > > > > PATH=/cygdrive/c/'Program Files'/'<program folder>'/<program > > executable>:$PATH > > export PATH > > > > This does not appear to work. Does anyone know how to do this? > > Should be > > PATH=/cygdrive/c/'Program Files'/'<program folder>'/:$PATH > export PATH > > The program executable's name should not be part of the PATH > enironment variable. Actually, it should be PATH=/cygdrive/c/'Program Files'/'<program folder>'/:"$PATH" export PATH since PATH in Windows usually already has spaces in it. This could be simplified to PATH="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/<program folder>/:$PATH" HTH, 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://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
