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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 05:52:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: PATH conversion bug
To: Kai Henningsen <kai AT cats DOT ms>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Kai Henningsen <kai AT cats DOT ms> 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!!

> 
> I don't know if this is a general problem with converting relative path
> entries.
> 
> Anyway, the result is long pauses during every PATH search,
> presumably while the machine is looking for network hosts named
> "W." and so on.
> 

Most likely correct.

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.


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