Which command to bump when M$ is non-posixish
Todd Goodman
tsg1@earthlink.net
Wed Mar 31 19:45:00 GMT 1999
I expect you'll find many different answers to this question.
I like it to be a Posix machine when I'm running under cygwin shells
and a Windows machine otherwise.
I just have my cygnus.bat rearrange my path to achieve that effect.
Todd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [ mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Henry J. Cobb
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 1999 7:27 PM
> To: Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com
> Cc: dpainter@lightspeed.net; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Which command to bump when M$ is non-posixish
>
>
> There are a few places where X.exe exists both as a WinDos
> builtin and a
> standard GNU command installed with Cygwin.
>
> Now, one of the commands can be renamed (or deleted ;-) or
> the path can be
> set to choose one over the other (most of the time, for the
> Dos prompt).
>
> My requirement is that a WinDos machine with Cygwin installed function
> first as a Windos platform PC then as a DOS machine and
> lastly as a Posix
> machine. (When I feel the need for speed or whatever, I
> reboot to Linux...)
>
> Therefore I leave cygwin at the end and move the parts I need to
> non-blocked names.
>
> Does anybody think that Cygwin should install itself at the
> front of the
> Path environment variable?
>
>
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