Subject: Re: bash 2.04 can't complete ~/name if $HOME set to c:/users/foo?
From: "Ehud Karni" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:26:34 +0200

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:12:29 -0400, Christopher Faylor <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> You left out the part of my email which actually mentions how to solve this
> problem.  There should be no need for cygpath in this case.
> 
> Just set the HOME environment variable to a UNIX path.  It should work fine
> with native windows apps since HOME will be translated back to MS-DOS format
> prior to executing the program.  That's how cygwin works.

I'm sorry to say that you are wrong. It does not work on W98.
Here is my test:

EHUD-P-II-21:17:56-/etc-519# command.com /c echo ~/tst.run $HOME/xxx
/c/ehuds/tst.run /c/ehuds/xxx
EHUD-P-II-21:19:10-/etc-520# run-win.sh command.com /c echo ~/tst.run $HOME/xxx
+ '[' DONE = '' ']'
++ cnvrt_path /c/ehuds
++ cygpath -w /c/ehuds
+ export 'HOME=c:\ehuds'
+ HOME=c:\ehuds
+ CMD=
++ cnvrt_path command.com
++ echo command.com
+ CMD= command.com
++ cnvrt_path /c
++ echo /c
+ CMD= command.com /c
++ cnvrt_path echo
++ echo echo
+ CMD= command.com /c echo
++ cnvrt_path /c/ehuds/tst.run
++ cygpath -w /c/ehuds/tst.run
+ CMD= command.com /c echo c:\ehuds\tst.run
++ cnvrt_path /c/ehuds/xxx
++ cygpath -w /c/ehuds/xxx
+ CMD= command.com /c echo c:\ehuds\tst.run c:\ehuds\xxx
+ command.com /c echo 'c:\ehuds\tst.run' 'c:\ehuds\xxx'
c:\ehuds\tst.run c:\ehuds\xxx

EHUD-P-II-21:24:41-/etc-521# uname -a
CYGWIN_98-4.10 EHUD-P-II 1.3.3(0.46/3/2) 2001-09-12 23:54 i686 unknown

Ehud.

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