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 22:12:43 +0200 Message-Id: <200110022012.WAA04941@linux.> From: "Ehud Karni" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash 2.04 can't complete ~/name if $HOME set to c:/users/foo? CC: cygwin@cygwin.com In-reply-to: <20011002155310.A2088@redhat.com> (message from Christopher Faylor on Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:53:11 -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> <200110021926.VAA31467@linux.> <20011002155310.A2088@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 15:53:11 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > When a cygwin process is first started, it translates these variables from > MS-DOS format to UNIX format for its internal use. In most cases, when cygwin > execs a new process it converts these environment variables back into MS-DOS > format so that the new process can see native MS-DOS paths. You have missed the point, IGNORE the HOME variable it is not important. What is important is the path/filename of the arguments. See the following example below (no HOME there, I also omitted the -x): EHUD-P-II-21:02:03-/etc-522# command.com /c echo /c/ehuds/tst.run /d/WIN95/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS/hidgame.sys /c/ehuds/tst.run /d/WIN95/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS/hidgame.sys EHUD-P-II-22:02:29-/etc-523# run-win.sh command.com /c echo /c/ehuds/tst.run /d/WIN95/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS/hidgame.sys c:\ehuds\tst.run d:\WIN95\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\hidgame.sys EHUD-P-II-22:08:00-/etc-526# command.com /c notepad /c/ehuds/tst.run [error message box - Could not open /c/ehuds/tst] EHUD-P-II-22:08:13-/etc-527# run-win.sh command.com /c notepad /c/ehuds/tst.run [editing of existing file] 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/