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Re: Request for bashhere.inf


I tested this one on Windows XP and Windows 2000 and it worked very
nicely on both. Any chance of sticking the instructions below
somewhere in the standard cygwin distribution?

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On 12/21/2002 at 12:01 AM Marino Duregon wrote:

>try this one ...
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg01685.html
>
>Marino
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bruce Eckel" <Bruce@EckelObjects.com>
>To: "John Morrison" <john.r.morrison@ntlworld.com>;
<cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 6:06 PM
>Subject: RE: Request for bashhere.inf
>
>
>> The attached is the only one I seem to have, but I know there
was
>> another one floating around which seemed a bit better. The
problem
>> is that I don't know much about INF files (seems to be an arcane
>> knowledge) so I don't know how good/bad this one is, but I think
>> it's what I'm currently using. However, I suspect that if it was
>> added to the distribution there might be some folks who know
more
>> about it that could fix it up. It really is a useful tool.
>>
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>> On 12/18/2002 at 7:06 PM John Morrison wrote:
>>
>> >> From: Bruce Eckel
>> >
>> >Hi, nice to see you somewhere other than the Apache FOP list ;)
>> >
>> >> I use the "bash prompt here" tool all the time, but I've had
to
>> >> rely on some rather transient versions, and sometimes
>> self-hacked
>> >> approaches.
>> >
>> >It's not something I usually use, but...
>> >
>> >> I was hoping that you folks might consider putting a
>> well-written
>> >> one as part of the standard distribution, so everyone could
>> >> benefit. Just hoping...
>> >
>> >If you package it I'm sure it will be considered by the powers
>> >that be :)
>> >
>> >J.
>> >
>> >> PS: page 28 of the third edition of "Thinking in Java" sings
the
>> >> praises of Cygwin.
>> >
>> >I'm sure good press is always welcome :)
>>
>>
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