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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:44:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygpath returns garbage if DOS/win2k input environment variable is too long?
To: hauser AT acm DOT org, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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--- Ralf Hauser <ralfhauser AT gmx DOT ch> wrote:
> 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...?

My only thought is to wrap the cygpath command in a shell script:

cygpath --unix $CLASSPATH 2>&1 >>mylog

You might be able to do this within your .tcshrc with a little tweaking.
(Sorry, not a tcsh user.)

cygpath uses the MAXPATH (1024 for win9x??)

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