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Re: Bash Here - Start Cygwin from a folders context menu
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:16:23 +0200
- Subject: Re: Bash Here - Start Cygwin from a folders context menu
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0205271607560.1444-101000@barbecueworld>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
Michael schrieb:
> On Mon, 27 May 2002, Martin Gramatke wrote:
>> I tried to install something similiar for Cygwin: "Bash Here" should
>> start a cygwin bash shell from a folders context menu.
>>
>> The three installation steps, as described at the end of this posting,
>> works but it is not perfect.
> You might have better results with the attached registry file. You need to
> have rxvt and bash installed. Other than that, it is a one-step
> installation and you don't need to edit any other files. It avoids using
> COMMAND.COM. (And you might want to consider trying CMD.EXE instead when
> you want such a thing--it will use long filenames and has many other
> useful features lacking in COMMAND.COM.) It will also give you paths like
> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/ instead of C:/Program Files/. Whether you want
> this or not is another question.
It doesn't work on drives. Just on folders.
I have s.th. similar working on drives and folders.
Glen Coakley has zipped up some files at his website.
As I fetched them, it needed some tweaking to get it running,
but it is the most complete solution for this issue I found.
http://www.users.qwest.net/~weissj/Cygwin/CygwinAddons.html
Gerrit
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