Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:26:34 +0200 Message-Id: <200110021926.VAA31467@linux.> From: "Ehud Karni" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash 2.04 can't complete ~/name if $HOME set to c:/users/foo? In-reply-to: <20011002151229.A1904@redhat.com> (message from Christopher Faylor on Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:12:29 -0400) Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies Reply-to: ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011001192343.00a74568@pop.atg.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20011001192343.00a74568@pop.atg.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20011002102745.00a6df08@pop.atg.com> <20011002134419.E12071@redhat.com> <200110021901.VAA28178@linux.> <20011002151229.A1904@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.7.1 rmail (send-msg 1.105) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:12:29 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > You left out the part of my email which actually mentions how to solve this > problem. There should be no need for cygpath in this case. > > Just set the HOME environment variable to a UNIX path. It should work fine > with native windows apps since HOME will be translated back to MS-DOS format > prior to executing the program. That's how cygwin works. I'm sorry to say that you are wrong. It does not work on W98. Here is my test: EHUD-P-II-21:17:56-/etc-519# command.com /c echo ~/tst.run $HOME/xxx /c/ehuds/tst.run /c/ehuds/xxx EHUD-P-II-21:19:10-/etc-520# run-win.sh command.com /c echo ~/tst.run $HOME/xxx + '[' DONE = '' ']' ++ cnvrt_path /c/ehuds ++ cygpath -w /c/ehuds + export 'HOME=c:\ehuds' + HOME=c:\ehuds + CMD= ++ cnvrt_path command.com ++ echo command.com + CMD= command.com ++ cnvrt_path /c ++ echo /c + CMD= command.com /c ++ cnvrt_path echo ++ echo echo + CMD= command.com /c echo ++ cnvrt_path /c/ehuds/tst.run ++ cygpath -w /c/ehuds/tst.run + CMD= command.com /c echo c:\ehuds\tst.run ++ cnvrt_path /c/ehuds/xxx ++ cygpath -w /c/ehuds/xxx + CMD= command.com /c echo c:\ehuds\tst.run c:\ehuds\xxx + command.com /c echo 'c:\ehuds\tst.run' 'c:\ehuds\xxx' c:\ehuds\tst.run c:\ehuds\xxx EHUD-P-II-21:24:41-/etc-521# uname -a CYGWIN_98-4.10 EHUD-P-II 1.3.3(0.46/3/2) 2001-09-12 23:54 i686 unknown Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Mivtach - Simon Insurance /"\ Tel: +972-3-7966-561 Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign (USA) Fax and voice mail: 1-815-5509341 X Against HTML Mail Better Safe Than Sorry / \ mailto:ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il http://www.simonwiesel.co.il -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/