From: morche AT sat1 DOT de (Matthias Morche)
Subject: Re: Poor perf of cd; pregnant pauses
22 Jul 1998 01:58:03 -0700
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To: "Maillist, Cygnus" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Andrew Sharp wrote:
....
> As for the hang when you type a command that doesn't exist, I used to
> have this problem on a Win95 OSR2 machine (never on NT), I'm pretty sure
> it went away (it's gone now, so something made it go away) after I
> painstakingly eliminated non-existant paths from the PATH variable.
....

Another instance of this problem arises, when Novell defines a PATH like
"Y:" which is translated into "//Y.". Unfortunately this invokes a
search for a machine named "Y". The problem went away, whem I patched
the path to give "//Y" instead:
export PATH=`echo $PATH | sed
's=\(^\|:\)\(//[A-Z]\)\.\(/\|:\|$\)=\1\2\3='`

Perhaps there' a better solution out there.
-- 
	Matthias Morche (mailto:morche AT sat1 DOT de)
		SAT.1 (http://www.sat1.de)

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