Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

[Andrew DeFaria]

Tino Lange wrote:

> This is not true! There's a trick: At least under >= Windows 2000 you 
> can just put 'cygpath.exe' (and its path) in your so called 
> "ApplicationPaths". This is a Registry location for several utils you 
> can just call by name - no more needed. Have a look at your:
> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App 
> Paths" When you start such an application it don't need to be in the 
> path of the machine.
>
> Solution:
> Just put 'cygpath.exe' in your Application path - then you're able to 
> use it from everywhere on your machine. So you can find the CYGWIN 
> root with "cygpath -w /".

While interesting there are two flaws here. Firstly, this down't work on 
all versions of Windows. Secondly, if I could get my users to set their 
"ApplicationPaths" I could as easily get them to set their PATHs. The 
real world situation is that this is not the case and neither PATH nore 
ApplicationPaths are set.



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