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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:54:04 -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
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
In-Reply-To: <KJEOKFJJEDMIGBEEJCHCMEBHNDAA.ralfhauser@gmx.ch>
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Looks like you'll have to take Chris' advice and at least look at the
cygpath source. Does it work with a shorter CLASSPATH?

Oh, and follow Randy's advice about the --path option, too. 

--- Ralf Hauser <ralfhauser AT gmx DOT ch> wrote:
> Thx! Unfortunately still only the same garbage in the mylog file.
> Apparently, no warning goes to stderr?

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin [mailto:joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com],
> cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Sent: Mittwoch, 25. September 2002 18:44
> > --- 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
> >
> > cygpath uses the MAXPATH (1024 for win9x??)
> 


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