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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 10:50:55 -0400
To: "Kai Henningsen" <kai AT cats DOT ms>,
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Sort of solved (was: Re: What are these cd errors?)
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At 02:52 PM 10/1/99 +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
>Solved! See below.
>
>On 1 Oct 99, at 11:13, Kai Henningsen wrote:
>
>> Huh?!
>> 
>> The *same* bash cannot do this cd when called as sh?!
>> 
>> Here's  cygcheck -s -v -r output - essentially, this is a fresh install 
>> of B20.1 plus the cygwin1-19990115 DLL:
>
>I also tried this with the original DLL, and with the one from the 
>19990929 snapshot, and both show the exact same problem.
>
>Mounting the drive it's happening on (so the pathname becomes 
>/f/... instead of //f/...) does not change anything, either.
>
>Nor does ash have less trouble.
>
>
>HAH! Found it. Neither bash-called-as-sh nor ash can cope with 
>the CDPATH. They cannot even cope with a CDPATH set to "."!  
>This sure doesn't happen under Linux.
>
>Regards - Kai Henningsen
>

Huh?  I've used CDPATH under cygwin for *years* and I've never seen any
problems cding anywhere.  Perhaps it would be best if you passed along
your environment with a description of what you are doing since it seems
there are some definite environment issues here.


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