Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <20020926005404.47742.qmail@web20002.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:54:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Subject: RE: cygpath returns garbage if DOS/win2k input environment variable is too long? To: hauser@acm.org Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Looks like you'll have to take Chris' advice and at least look at the cygpath source. Does it work with a shorter CLASSPATH? Oh, and follow Randy's advice about the --path option, too. --- Ralf Hauser wrote: > Thx! Unfortunately still only the same garbage in the mylog file. > Apparently, no warning goes to stderr? > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin [mailto:joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com], > cygwin@cygwin.com > > Sent: Mittwoch, 25. September 2002 18:44 > > --- Ralf Hauser wrote: > > > 1) is there a way to see an error-message from cygpath (a log > > file or some > > > way to see stderr if there is any of that)? > > > 2) I did a work-around with assembling the path again in my > > .tcshrc. This is > > > not convenient. Any better ideas...? > > > > My only thought is to wrap the cygpath command in a shell script: > > > > cygpath --unix $CLASSPATH 2>&1 >>mylog > > > > cygpath uses the MAXPATH (1024 for win9x??) > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- 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/