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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:11:49 -0700
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygpath returns garbage if DOS/win2k input environment
  variable is too long?
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Ralf,

You're trying to convert a PATH (or PATH-like) variable, not a single file 
or directory name. Include the "-p" option.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 08:49 2002-09-25, Ralf Hauser wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The following problem occurred to me:
>
>1) In my win2k, I set (a long) Java CLASSPATH
>2) under cygwin I want to convert it (in my .tcshrc) an it fails. If I do it
>on the command line, it looks like the following:
>rhauser AT PCGF590K:~> cygpath --unix "$CLASSPATH"
>
>...
>
>My questions:
>1) is there a way to see an error-message from cygpath (a log file or some
>way to see stderr if there is any of that)?
>2) I did a work-around with assembling the path again in my .tcshrc. This is
>not convenient. Any better ideas...?
>
>Many thx in advance and rgds Ralf


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