Long Path Name troubles

[John Huddleston]

Dan,

I guess the key is that Cygnus is not a stand alone operating
system.  Placing condensed (eight char) paths into your PATH
makes it run faster under Windows 98.  NT handles it much
better.

>From your previous email to the group, it was apparent that
you have installed B20 under X:\src.  Also, I noticed that
you installed it under a X partition with a different name,
using CygWin and not Cygnus.

>  "X:\src\CygWin\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\i586-cygwin32\bin"

B19 was especially sensitive to location and B20 might be
as well.  To offset that you can do the following from the
COMMAND window

c:
cd\
mkdir Cygnus
mount -b X:\src\CygWin /Cygnus

This will create a mount point and all will look OK to B20.
Remember to add the correct PATH in your autoexec.bat
file.


----- Original Message -----
From: Dan St.André <dansaintandre@mindspring.com>
To: John Huddleston <jhudd@cody.itc.nrcs.usda.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: Long Path Name troubles


> Why must I fall back to 8-dot-3-tilde-names?
> ~~~ Dan 0:-/
>
> John Huddleston wrote:
>
> > Edit the autoexec.bat file and obey the Microsoft rules for collapsing
> > the "longer than eight character" names to eight character names.
> > In your case, add the following line to the autoexec.bat file.
> >
> > set PATH=X:\src\Cygnus\cygwin~1\H-i586~1\bin;%PATH%
>
>


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