Re: Bug in "startXwin.bat"

[Linda Walsh <cygwin at tlinx dot org>]

Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
> Linda Walsh wrote:
> > Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
> > > Linda Walsh wrote:
> > > > The startxwin.sh script works, but startxwin.bat does not work if
> > > > your Cygwin installation isn't in the default location.
> > > >
> > > > You could use "mount -p" (presuming your cygwin\bin is in your 
> > > > windows path, as mine is).
> > > >
> > > > If not, need to look in the registry:
> > > > "\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts 
> > > > v2\cygdrive prefix"
> > >
> > > No, you don't need to look in the registry.  There's nothing there that
> > > 'mount' won't tell you.  Forget about the registry.  You'll be better
> > > off, especially when Cygwin 1.7 is released.
> > -----
> >     Um...you sure about that?
> >
> >     how do you run 'mount' if you don't know what the cygdrive prefix is?
>
> Linda, please don't run the same thread on two different lists.  If you
> want to talk about this here, kill the thread that you started on the
> main list.

Larry --
	The reason I changed forums was that the TOPIC/SUBJECT changed.

	It went from my finding a bug in the Cygwin Xserver's
startxwin.bat script (something appropriate for the cygwin-xfree list)
to a more general question of how one would solve the problem
of finding the cygwin prefix in a windows batchfile.

	Just because you can't answer the question without circular
logic is no reason to get upset.


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