Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: "Kai Henningsen" Organization: Spuentrup CTI To: Kai Henningsen , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:01:49 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: PATH conversion bug X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Kai Henningsen" X-pmrqc: 1 In-reply-to: <19991001125205.16806.rocketmail@web116.yahoomail.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from Quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id JAA12578 On 1 Oct 99, at 5:52, Earnie Boyd wrote: > --- Kai Henningsen wrote: > > The following PATH sequence: > > > > ;W:.;Z:.;Y:.;X:.; > > > > which is typical for drives mapped by the Netware client, gets > > converted into the following cygwin PATH sequence: > > > > ://W.://Z.://Y.://X.: > > > > This is a bug and doesn't work. > > Not a cygwin bug!! Why not? Who else is converting DOS-style PATH variables to Unix-style PATH variables? W:. is certainly a legal (if slightly unusual) PATH entry. //W. is certainly something very different. I don't see that it can be anything BUT a cygwin bug. > To solve/workaround this problem, modify the PATH in the ~/.bashrc file to be > what it should be. NOTE: The smaller the PATH the faster cygwin will be. PATH="$( echo -n $PATH | sed 's+//\([A-Z]\)\.+//\1+g' )" seems to work well enough. I suggest putting the equivalent into the PATH converter. Regards - Kai Henningsen -- http://www.cats.ms Spuentrup CTI Fon: +49 251 322311 0 Windbreede 12 Fax: +49 251 322311 99 D-48157 Münster Mob: +49 161 3223111 Germany GSM: +49 171 7755060 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com