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From:	"pjfarley3" <pjfarley3 AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject:	Can ":" be used as a PATH separator?
Date:	14 Jul 2005 21:50:42 -0700
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For a "normal" application bash script (not configure/make/etc., so no
config.site is used) that wants to add a directory to the PATH
variable, does DJGPP always require ";", or can ":" be substituted,
assuming that all "C:", "D:", etc. in the PATH variable have been
converted to "/dev/C", "/dev/D", etc. first, of course?

I tried that using bash-2.04 from the current release area on
ftp.delorie.com, but it did not work.

"type -a cat" from inside bash said it could not find anything when I
converted the PATH to use ":" in place of ";", and my bash application
script couldn't find it either.

Does the beta bash-2.05 handle this better?

TIA for any info/advice/RTFM you can provide.

Peter

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