Have you set your HOME var in your autoexec.bat bash needs a certain
information
about its environment before it will run properly, also you should probably
get create
either a .profile or .bashrc too look here for some bash info
http://www.alank.net/cygwin/ try some of these items and see if it helps
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Durrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 12:48 PM
Subject: bash
> Hi,
>
> I am running Windows98, emacs20.4, and the latest cygnus win32 tools.
>
> I am sure that binaries for java and the cygnus tools is on my PATH var,
> but emacs is unable to run bash as my shell.
>
> When I try to compile a java source file using JDE-->compile I get:
> cd c:/acs/schedule/
> javac ObjectList.java
> in the split screen and
> Searching for program: no such file or directory, bash
> in the command window.
>
> I have attached my .emacs file; it is just the minimal file with the
> browser stuff removed.
>
> Can anyone help me set the vars so emacs can find them?
>
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
> ;; This .emacs file illustrates the minimul setup
> ;; required to run the JDE.
>
> ;; Update the Emacs load-path to include the path to
> ;; the JDE. This code assumes that you have installed
> ;; the JDE in the specified subdirectory of your home
> ;; directory.
> (setq load-path
> (nconc
> '(
> "~/site-lisp/jde-2.1.5"
> )
> load-path))
>
> ;; Tell Emacs to load the entire JDE package at startup (only once).
> (require 'jde)
>
> ;; Sets the basic indentation for Java source files
> ;; to two spaces.
> (defun my-jde-mode-hook ()
> (setq c-basic-offset 2))
>
> (add-hook 'jde-mode-hook 'my-jde-mode-hook)
>
> ;; Include the following only if you want to run
> ;; bash as your shell.
>
> ;; Setup Emacs to run bash as its primary shell.
> (setq binary-process-input t)
> (setq shell-file-name "bash")
> (setq explicit-shell-file-name shell-file-name)
> (setenv "SHELL" shell-file-name)
> (setq explicit-sh-args '("-login" "-i"))
> (setq w32-quote-process-args ?\") ;; Use Cygnus quoting rules.
>
>