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Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
> Larry Hall wrote:
> 
>> From what I can see, the fact that the path is referencing 'a:' is
>> the problem.  You fix that in Windows in the "System" applet in
>> the "Control Panel".
> 
> Nope, Control Panel shows the Path (sic) variable correctly pointing to 
> c:\Windows etc. Besides, if Windows was looking for Windows on a: then 
> the problem would affect everything on the whole computer, not just 
> Cygwin. Also, even in the cygcheck output, all the variables that should 
> go into the construction of the path are correct (home drive and all 
> that stuff).

So $PATH in bash references '/cygdrive/a'?  Maybe some strange bug in
the path conversion logic if so.  Dunno for sure right now.



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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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