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On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:28:31AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:
>>Windows programs will only ever see a Windows-style PATH no matter
>>what; however, they WILL see the Cygwin paths converted to
>>Windows-style and prepended IF they were run from a login shell under
>>Cygwin.
>
>Yes, that's how I'm getting these Message too long messages.

Can we *please* stop this discussion now?  There isn't anything new to
add so we're just wasing bandwidth.

cgf

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