rxvt and path problems

[Paul Tomsic]

Hi - I'm having trouble setting up RXVT on WinXP.
I've got the following shortcut set up to launch RXVT:

C:\viper\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sl 1500 -fn "Lucida Console-12" -bg black -fg yellow -sr -e bash --rcfile "/cygdrive/c/viper/.bashrc"

My $HOME directory is set to the following, as seen in the RXVT:

ptomsic:bin> echo $HOME
/cygdrive/c/viper

and as seen in the DOS prompt:

C:\>set HOME
HOME=/cygdrive/c/viper

When I launch the shortcut for RXVT, all is good but it opens in "/usr/bin"

If i type `cd ~` then I lose my $PATH, or so it would seem.  If i `echo $PATH` it looks like it's in tact, but i can't do simple things, like `ls` or `which ping` or `who`

Why would it be okay when I first launch the RXVT shortcut, but then simply changing to my $HOME directory causes everything to start misbehaving?

thanks - Paul



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