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Re: Installing mintty in a restricted environment


On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net> wrote:

<snip>

> While waiting for a fix, create your own shortcut for Mintty. ?Assuming
> C:\cygwin is where you installed Cygwin, set the Target: field to
> "C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -" without the quotes and the Start in: field
> to C:\cygwin\bin. ?Adjust as necessary to point to wherever you actually
> installed Cygwin.
>


Thanks Jeremy, apparently the problem is the "-" at the end of the
mintty call.  Thats the beast that tells mintty to read the
environment files.

All is well with the world now.  Thanks for the tip.

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