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Re: Suppressing name of running binary in shell windows


In article <2.2.32.19970912004734.00944904@ma.ultranet.com>,
Larry Hall  <lhall@rfk.com> wrote:
>At 06:27 PM 9/10/97 +0100, Andrew Stevens wrote:
>>Can some kind Soul remind me of the registry entry for
>>turning off NT's irritating habit of constantly updating
>>the title of a shell window to the program currently running
>>under it.  
>
>If you're talking about running under bash, you need a version of
>Sergey's cygwin.dll.  If you have one, you set an environment variable.
>Set CYGWIN_NOTITLE=1.  I'm not sure what the comparable thing is in 
>DOS land....

Actually, in the most recent version of Sergey's cygwin.dll, the default
is to not change the title of the shell window.  You turn it *on* with:

set CYGWIN_TITLE=1
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