RE: Revisiting the cradle problem

["Bengt-Arne Fjellner" <bengt-arne dot fjellner at ltu dot se>]

Scott Mohnkern wrote:
> I thought I had this problem solved but I don't.
> 
> I'm running Cygwin with xfree installed, and have installed the
> application Cradle.  After the install, when I attempted to open up a
> shell I got a "blank screen" with no prompt.  I could issue some
> commands (like an ls) but most everything else failed to function.  I
> assumed it was a pathing problem.  We figured that out by putting
> Cygwin at the front (instead of the rear) of the path.
> 
> However, we're still seeing the problem.
> 
> We've isolated it to Cradle, when it does its install, it sets a
> Windows Environment Variable SHELL to an application n the Cradle
> program. 
> 
> If we delete this Environment Variable, the Shell comes up in Cygwin
> with no problems.
> 
> I assume Cygwin is using this environment variable to set the default
> shell, and that's what's causing the problem.
> 
> Is there a way to start Cygwin (We're using Xstart.bat) to tell it NOT
> to use this variable?
> 
in Xstart.bat do:
set SHELL=
then you have cleared it.

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Bengt-Arne Fjellner

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