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Re: Wanted X, got Perl - operator error or prequisiste


On Sat, 10 May 2003 05:07:23 +0200 (CEST), Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>You dont have to put C:\opt\cygwin\bin in your PATH.

Not when running under Cygwin - this is true. But, I want to use Cygwin programs w/o starting up a bash shell. That's why I add the Cygwin stuff to my DOS path.

Under bash, I end up with redundant path entries at the start of the PATH. No biggie.

matthew@mopxp ~
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/opt/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/opt/asperl/bin/:/cygdrive/c/PVSW/BIN:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Syst
em32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/DLLShared:/cygdrive/c/MSVS/Tools/WinNT:/cygdrive/c/MSVS/MSDev98/Bin:/cygdrive/c/MSVS/Too
ls:/cygdrive/c/VC98/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

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Matthew O. Persico




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