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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:38:39 -0400
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Subject: Re: Re: Changing HOME for PERL
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dexter Michael wrote:
> $ echo $PATH

[...]

Holy giant PATH, Batman!  That's like 1800 characters long! Not that
that's necessarily a problem on its own...

I'm curious about this bit:

...:"C:/Program Files/Common Files/EMC":...

Does quoting the Windows-style pathname actually work?  That seems suspicious.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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