From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: B19.1/bash2.01.1: strange behaviour (NT) 11 Sep 1998 00:14:57 -0700 Message-ID: <19980910125054.4496.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send101.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Hemsing AT atecom DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com ---Chris Hemsing wrote: > > To whom it may concern, > > 1) My home is //Z/Myname; a simple cd takes me there. If I type cd .., > then pwd says //Z, BUT an ls shows me that I'm still in my home > directory. Z is mapped on some share. This is a emulation bug. Here is the `why' behind this bug. The //Z is the cygwin replacement for DOS Z:. Under dos if you are at Z:/Myname and type Z: you remain in Z:/Myname. This then is the problem with the cygwin cd. Cygwin is stripping the path name removing right most basename including the / and when it calls chdir it will do the same as typing Z: under dos. The fix would be to leave the right most /. > 2) If I'm on //Z/Myname a cd /etc says : No such file or directory, > BUT cd /;cd /etc works. What does you mount table look like? I don't have that problem. > 3) My historyfile is correctly ~/.bash_history; every time I leave bash > the commands are correctly appended to .bash_history, > BUT when starting a bash it does not know any hiostory command. Don't have an answer for this. Maybe bashes readline library wasn't set to load it. == - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".