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From: "Kai Henningsen" <kai AT cats DOT ms>
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To: Kai Henningsen <kai AT cats DOT ms>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com,
        earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:01:49 +0200
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On 1 Oct 99, at 5:52, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> --- Kai Henningsen <kai AT cats DOT ms> wrote:
> > The following PATH sequence:
> > 
> > 		;W:.;Z:.;Y:.;X:.;
> > 
> > which is typical for drives mapped by the Netware client, gets
> > converted into the following cygwin PATH sequence:
> > 
> > 		://W.://Z.://Y.://X.:
> > 
> > This is a bug and doesn't work.
> 
> Not a cygwin bug!!

Why not? Who else is converting DOS-style PATH variables to 
Unix-style PATH variables?

W:. is certainly a legal (if slightly unusual) PATH entry. 
//W. is certainly something very different.

I don't see that it can be anything BUT a cygwin bug.

> To solve/workaround this problem, modify the PATH in the ~/.bashrc file to be
> what it should be.  NOTE: The smaller the PATH the faster cygwin will be.

PATH="$( echo -n $PATH | sed 's+//\([A-Z]\)\.+//\1+g' )" 

seems to work well enough. I suggest putting the equivalent into 
the PATH converter.


Regards - Kai Henningsen

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