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