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RE: MinTTY
> From: Warren Young
>
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> > I think the only reason to use cygwin.bat is to set the cygwin
> > environment variable before bash starts. There's no way to do that
> > with a shortcut is there?
>
> In this case, it could be one of MinTTY's settings, because
> it can set up the environment before calling bash.
>
Yes, but there's the complication of "CYGWIN=" settings that have to be set
before the Cygwin DLL even loads. I don't know how many of these 1.7 will
obsolete, but it's something that probably requires some cogitation before
implementing.
> For that matter, MinTTY could also provide GUI access to bash
> command line flags, a way to change the login shell by
> modifying /etc/passwd, etc.
It could be glorious! Well, or overachieving ;-). For me it'd just be
great to have a nice terminal that didn't require an X server and had
Windows native-y configuration and copy/paste. We'll get to that 21st
century yet!
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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