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Tom Rodman wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
>   ~ $ date;cygcheck -c cygwin
>   Sun Aug 24 11:37:36 CDT 2008
>   Cygwin Package Information
>   Package              Version        Status
>   cygwin               1.5.25-15      OK
>   ~ $ "$COMSPEC"
>   -bash: D:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe: command not found
>   ~ $ ls -l "$COMSPEC"
>   -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators SYSTEM 236816 Nov  2  2004 D:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe*
> 
> bash will not run a command using a windows path to it anymore.
> Sorry for not "keeping up" - I did go through the cygwin
> announcements for 2008, but probably need to go back even further.
> I will plan on doing this.
> 
> When this syntax stopped being supported and why?  - not that I object ;->  

There hasn't been any effort to support Windows paths in Cygwin for a long
time.  That doesn't mean it wouldn't have worked sometime in the past.  It's
just that doing so is not a goal of this project.  Use the POSIX form of the
path and will work nicely for you - /cygdrive/d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe.  If
you need to use COMSPEC, run it through 'cygpath' to convert it to a POSIX
path.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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