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Re: weird problem with cygwin prompt:
* Richard Copley (2005-06-14 21:02 +0100)
> On 14/06/05, Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> wrote:
>> * wen (2005-06-14 14:55 +0100)
>>> it shows bash-2.05b$ when i double click on cygwin.
>>> in general, it should show something like this
>>> Administrator@hdcad-002
>>>
>>> in the 1st case, i cannot use ls.exe command while it lies under the folder
>>> C:\cygwin\bin
>
> That probably shouldn't happen.
What shouldn't happen? You actually don't know which of the one
hundred possible interpretations of "I cannot use ls.exe" he means.
> In such cases, I usually don't worry
> about finding out what exactly has happened. I move the stuff I want
> to keep from my home directory to somewhere outside Cygwin's
> directories (hopefully not forgetting any config files I've
> customized). Then I use setup.exe to uninstall everything, then I
> delete 'C:\Cygwin' (or whatever) using Windows Explorer, probably give
> it a reboot for luck, then run setup.exe again to reinstall
> everything, and move my files back.
You forgot to delete the HKLM/HKCU settings.
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