X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SARE_FREE_WEBM_LAPOSTE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D3F6779.5010100@laposte.net> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:14:49 +0100 From: Cyrille Lefevre User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: bad PATH conversion under XP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-me-spamlevel: not-spam X-me-spamrating: 40.000000 X-me-spamcause: OK, (0)(0000)gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrfeduuddrtddvucetggdotefuucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuoehnohhnvgeqnecuuegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecu 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 Hi, v2$ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PC213736 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin aka Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 though SSH at least : v2$ regtool get /machine/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session\ Manager/Environment/PATH %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\orawin\BIN;C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;"C:\Program Files\Hummingbird\Connectivity\7.00\Accessories\";C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;D:\sfu\Perl\bin\;D:\sfu\common\;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\Samsung\Samsung PC Studio 3\ gives : /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/orawin/BIN:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/ATI Technologies/ATI Control Panel:"C:/Program Files/Hummingbird/Connectivity/7.00/Accessories/":/cygdrive/c/Program Files/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/cygdrive/d/sfu/Perl/bin/:/cygdrive/d/sfu/common/:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Samsung/Samsung PC Studio 3/:/bin note the unconverted path between double-quotes : "C:/Program Files/Hummingbird/Connectivity/7.00/Accessories/" also, how about to get rid of final slashes (.../ => ...) ? this appear to work well under Windows Vista (i.e. : /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Hummingbird/Connectivity/7.00/Accessories) Regards, Cyrille Lefevre -- mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre-lists@laposte.net -- 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