From: bk AT cheerful DOT com (Bill Klein)
Subject: Re: Win95b and long filenames of the /usr mount
3 Jun 1997 01:52:52 -0700
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Kevin Layer wrote:
>I don't know if this has been reported yet, but the OSR2 release of
>Windows 95 (aka "Windows 95b") doesn't have a DOS that allows long
>filenames.  This means that until Windows starts you can't put
>...\H-i386-cygwin32\bin in your PATH.  This also means you have a
>classic chicken and egg problem: if you do it after Windows starts,
>then all processes started by the explorer won't inherit the new
>PATH.

If I'm not mistaken, I didn't have a problem using
long file names for my path (they would just be
ignored until windows loads)... But if I am mistaken
(always a good possiblity), you can just use the
short representation of the folder names in the
path. For example, if you have something in

  c:\my cool path\my neat program\

You can add the path:

  c:\mycool~1\myneat~1\

Hope this helps!

Bill Klein <bk AT cheerful DOT com> - http://bk.base.org/

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