Cygwin finally croaked

[Larry Hall]

At 08:17 PM 10/25/2004, you wrote:
>"Larry Hall" 

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>> 
>> OK, well if you actually changed absolutely *nothing* relative to Cygwin 
>> then your problem lies elsewhere.  As for your 'cygwin.bat' file, that's 
>> fine.  It works fine for me with minor edits to make it conform to my
>> environment.  The only suggestion I'll make beyond looking at other areas
>> in your system is to try running 'cygwin.bat' from a DOS command prompt
>> window.  If you can reproduce the problem there, there may be some output
>> that would help you zero in on the issue.
>> 

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>OK I did it in the console.  Pardon my mistakes here:
>
>C:\cygwin>cygwin
>
>C:\cygwin>REM @echo off
>
>C:\cygwin>C:
>
>C:\cygwin>chdir C:\cygwin\bin
>
>C:\cygwin\bin>Set INCLUDE=C:\cygwin\lib\gcc-lib\i686-pc-mingw32\3.3.1\include;
>
>C:\cygwin\bin>Set CYGWIN=tty notitle glob
>
>C:\cygwin\bin>bash --login -i
>
>=========
>My comment: This should not have happened.
>=========


Huh.  Well I guess it's time to get some output from bash.  Add '-x' after
'-i' in your 'cygwin.bat' file and try it again.


>C:\cygwin\bin>cygwin
>'cygwin' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>operable program or batch file.


As you know, that's expected unless 'C:\cygwin' is in your Windows path
(which it really shouldn't be).


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