paths in xp and 2000

[C. kumar]

Guys:

I have upgraded from win 98 to 2000 at work and winme to xp at home. Both of
them had gnu bash.

However after the upgrade, I find that the bash shell is not inheriting the
path which had I set in the environment variable as

c:\fsf\bin

so I have to type full path name for all the gnu commands under bash.

But dos shell works fine and understands the path.

any clues?
Thanx