newbie: Dos path in bash

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Thu Aug 3 12:34:00 GMT 2000


--- Isaac <Isaac@compuserve.com> wrote:
> Hi!  I'm a total newbie to cygwin and the list. I'm sure this has been
> asked before, but I didn't find it in the archives.
> 
> My DOS path kind of looks like it is converted into a bash path when I
> start bash (with cygwin.bat) but nothing on the dos path is found.  Is
> there an easier solution to this than re-building the path manually?
> 
> I'm on win98.
> 

What exactly do you mean that "nothing on the dos path is found"?  

What is it that you're trying to execute but can't?

Is the command that you're normally used to using a "built-in" of
command.com/cmd.exe?

What are the resulting error messages?

Cheers,

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