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Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:49:46 -0400
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I believe this is a non-problem.  The cause: human error.  Doing a
    cd  /c/Doc*/pa*/App*    is not the same as
    cd  /c/Doc*/Pa*/App*
Wildcard lookups are always case sensitive.  I must not have been 
consistant when switching between Windows.

Paul McFerrin wrote:
> Dave:  Let's put this prob on hold for a while.  At least til I 
> investigate it some more.  Something is acting weird.  This prob has 
> disappeared!  I tried unloading everything just in case some name 
> cache had it already expanded.  I did get correct results from using 
> latest pdksh.  Weird.
>
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> Paul McFerrin wrote:
>>  
>>> Just want to point out a slightly difference in behavior of ksh
>>>    @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2
>>> between Cygwin 1.5 & 1.7  First, the above is a older version of pdksh
>>> that I had to tweek the cygwin sources a l-o-n-g time ago.  Under 1.5,
>>> the following does work properly:
>>>    $ cd /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/
>>>     
>>
>>   LERN2SHELL.  Try "echo /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/" 
>> to see if
>> you've actually got a real path there, or no matching path, or 
>> several matching
>> paths. Try stripping components off one by one and seeing which one 
>> you made a
>> mistake in.  The multiple expansions work just fine for me:
>>
>> $ PS1="$ " pdksh
>> $ cd /cygdrive/c/Doc*/Adm*/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/
>> $ pwd
>> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Application
>> Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/bfwp4loc.default
>> $
>>
>>   Also, LERN2BUGREPORT.  You told us all about how you feel, but 
>> completely
>> omitted the crucial detail of WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS when you try it.  
>> Error
>> message?  No error message?  Boxing glove on a spring comes out of 
>> your computer
>> and punches you in the nose?
>>
>>     cheers,
>>       DaveK
>>
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