X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A96A9BC.9070806@bopp.net> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:43:56 -0500 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Changing HOME for PERL References: <4A95AA6A.9010909@bopp.net> <4A9697B2.6050101@bopp.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Mark J. Reed wrote: > 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. At this point, the cygcheck output would probably be really helpful. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple