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RE: change opening path


If you're the only one using Cygwin on your machine, try

echo "cd /cygdrive/c" >> /etc/profile

and then restart the Cygwin shell.

In the future, when you need to find out which package contains a
particular program, use the Cygwin package search page at
<http://cygwin.com/packages/> (it helps to prepend "bin/" to program
names, especially short ones like "vi").
	Igor

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Tom Plane wrote:

> Thanks Dave.
>
> I tried this and got an error.
>
> bash: vi: command not found
>
> I did a default install.
>
> A little more help please.
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. David Boyd [mailto:dave@XXXXXX.XXX]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:48 AM
> To: Tom Plane
> Subject: Re: change opening path
>
> "Tom Plane" <tom@XXXXXXXX.XXX> writes:

To both you and Dave: <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.

> > I would love to try this but I don't know how to add the cd command to
>
> > the end of /etc/profile. Can you explain the steps to me?
>
> open a command prompt (bash)
>
> type: cd /etc
> type: vi profile
> press: 'G' to go the end
> press: 'A' to go to the end of the current line in insert mode
> press: enter to open a new line
> type: cd *path_to_wherever*
> type: :wq
>
> restart cygwin
>
> Dave

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