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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:56:38 -0400
To: Chris Metcalf <metcalf AT incert DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for
  completion?
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At 12:45 PM 4/16/2002, Chris Metcalf wrote:
>Currently, if you use completion on a path with a drive letter (e.g.
>"ls -d c:/win<TAB>"), bash considers the drive letter to be unrelated
>syntax and expands out of the mounted root instead (e.g. c:/cygwin).


I don't see this behavior.  It works fine for me (tm).  Perhaps you're 
getting caught by bash's default case-sensitivity of filename completion?  
I can't even begin to imagine why you get the root directory as a result 
though.  I'm guessing this must be a local environment issue.





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