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On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 12:04:06PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> I do not have a $HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/.bash_profile at the moment. > >What is HOME set to? Or better, run "cygcheck -r -s -v" and send us >the output. The TMPDIR variable is also translated by cygwin1.dll v1.1.0. Is it possible that this is a network path? Also, if you run "strace -osomefile /bin/pwd" it will probably be obvious what is causing the delay. There will be a really large number in the first field of somefile. >> It seems to me that with the "!D:" etc. variables mentioned above, >> CYGNUS keeps track of the last visited directories on the various >> partitions. > >No, this is something that Windows does in order to preserve the >dos-ism of each drive having a "current directory", when there are >multiple "dos" machines running. It's documented in MSDN. Actually, we add the "!" in front of the environment variables. Microsoft uses a "=" for these variables and we translate that to "!" since "=" is an invalid character for environment variable names in UNIX land. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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