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Re: Suppressing name of running binary in shell windows
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Suppressing name of running binary in shell windows
- From: cgf at bbc dot com (Chris Faylor)
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:17:14 GMT
- Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.
- References: <2.2.32.19970912004734.00944904@ma.ultranet.com>
- Reply-To: cgf at bbc dot com
In article <2.2.32.19970912004734.00944904@ma.ultranet.com>,
Larry Hall <lhall@rfk.com> wrote:
>At 06:27 PM 9/10/97 +0100, Andrew Stevens wrote:
>>Can some kind Soul remind me of the registry entry for
>>turning off NT's irritating habit of constantly updating
>>the title of a shell window to the program currently running
>>under it.
>
>If you're talking about running under bash, you need a version of
>Sergey's cygwin.dll. If you have one, you set an environment variable.
>Set CYGWIN_NOTITLE=1. I'm not sure what the comparable thing is in
>DOS land....
Actually, in the most recent version of Sergey's cygwin.dll, the default
is to not change the title of the shell window. You turn it *on* with:
set CYGWIN_TITLE=1
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