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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:41:25 -0500
From: "Bryan Zimmer" <bzimmer AT arcstp DOT org>
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Subject: filenames in the bash shell
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On the whole, I've found everything to be pretty much like Linux, but I have a problem referring to files by their Unix-style pathnames, where the path begins with the mounted root directory (mine is C:\Cygwin). My perl script couldn't find files in my home directory as so specified "/home/bzimmer/filename.txt", it couldn't even verify their existence.

I also have lines in my .bashrc that say "INFOPATH=/usr/info", (and INFODIR=/usr/info, for good measure), but I keep getting the error message that the directory doesn't exist. It doesn't seem to help to use windows-style pathnames either.

Things seem to work find when I use relative paths (../text.txt) but I can't use the absolute filenames. Is there a fix for this? What am I doing wrong?

I am running Cygwin on a Win NT 4.0 workstation, with a FAT32 filesystem. I have the CYGWIN=ntea variable set.

Any answers appreciated.

Thanks,

Bryan Zimmer
bzimmer AT arcstp DOT org


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