From: kunglao AT prairienet DOT org (Seymore Buttz)
Subject: Re: Win95b and long filenames of the /usr mount
3 Jun 1997 20:28:04 -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.
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