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

2004-10-04 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 versi

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

2004-10-04 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/P

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? .b

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: > >

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, an

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

2004-10-06 Thread Siegfried Heintze
: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:38 PM To: Siegfried Heintze Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT? On 5 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > >Anyway, in your case it should be as simple as this: > > > >PATH="/cygdrive/c/Progra

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

2004-10-06 Thread Edward L. Fox
ks, >Siegfried > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:38 PM > To: Siegfried Heintze > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: How to prepend a directory to the P

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 shell