RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

2004-10-06 Thread Siegfried Heintze
I looked in c:\Cygwin\home\Administrator and could not find a .profile file using emacs. There was a .bash_profile file. Should I create a .profile file? Thanks, Siegfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

2004-10-06 Thread Edward L. Fox
Just Do It! On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:18:31 -0600, Siegfried Heintze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked in c:\Cygwin\home\Administrator and could not find a .profile file using emacs. There was a .bash_profile file. Should I create a .profile file? Thanks, Siegfried -Original

RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

2004-10-06 Thread luke . kendall
On 6 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: I looked in c:\Cygwin\home\Administrator and could not find a .profile file using emacs. There was a .bash_profile file. Should I create a .profile file? Thanks, Siegfried It's not necessary, unless you might also run other Bourne shells.

Re: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

2004-10-05 Thread Edward L. Fox
Hi, Siegfried: In my opinion, I don't think it a good idea to use native Windows program in cygwin. Yes, you can remove your cygwin version of cvs.exe in /usr/bin and create a symbolic link there, pointing to /cygdrive/.../cvsnt/bin/cvs.exe. And it in fact will run instead of cygwin

Re: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

2004-10-05 Thread luke . kendall
On 4 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: I notice that Cygwin manipulates the path by prepending /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: to the windows PATH environment variable. This is a problem for me because I'm using CVSNT and I need my cvs client to be /cygdrive/c/Program

RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

2004-10-05 Thread Siegfried Heintze
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:45 AM Anyway, in your case it should be as simple as this: PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin:$PATH Where do I put this statement? .bashrc?

RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

2004-10-05 Thread Siegfried Heintze
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward L. Fox Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT? Hi, Siegfried: In my opinion, I don't think it a

RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

2004-10-05 Thread luke . kendall
On 5 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: Anyway, in your case it should be as simple as this: PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin:$PATH Where do I put this statement? .bashrc? You could, but why not put it in ~/.profile so it's read just once by the login shell, and any child

How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

2004-10-04 Thread Siegfried Heintze
I notice that Cygwin manipulates the path by prepending /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: to the windows PATH environment variable. This is a problem for me because I'm using CVSNT and I need my cvs client to be /cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin which it never sees because it finds