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Re: /etc/profile
Greetings, Achim Gratz!
>> People execute Windows programs using Cygwin all the time. With this
>> change, basic things like "cmd" and "notepad" will fail to work.
>> Working with Windows programs is the *point* of Cygwin. I really don't
>> think this change should go into the default startup scripts.
> The change is about giving users a choice. You can now drop a script
> into profile.d that just does:
> PATH="${PATH}:${ORIGINAL_PATH}"
The point it, I don't want this.
My $PATH is set in Windows, and I do not modify it in startup scripts.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 23.08.2012, <00:44>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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