Any progress on "Fork issues ith long command lines and long $PATH"?

[Ken Brown]

On 1/19/2016 2:06 PM, Richard Heintze wrote:
> Unfortunately, the following file name (for example) works with fsf emacs and not Cygwin emacs-w32:
>
> $USERPROFILE/Documents/hello.txt
>
> Even some bash commands accept this but emacs-w32 does not.
>
> I use these environment variables extensively to facilitate moving between different windows logins.

Using environment variables isn't the problem.  The problem is that 
$USERPROFILE is a native Win32 path.  To use it in Cygwin emacs, convert 
it to a Posix path.  For example:

$ echo $USERPROFILE
C:\Users\kbrown

$ cygpath -u $USERPROFILE
/c/Users/kbrown

Ken

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