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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:52:27 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-noreply AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: tcsh changes with spaces in path
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:32:12AM -0500, Kirschner, Paul E.        UTRC wrote:
>breaks my .cshrc. Several paths in my win2000 system path (from the
>environment variables section) are of the form "c:\program files\...". That
>space now breaks  my cshrc lines like...
>
>setenv PATH $PATH":/d/jdk1.3.1/bin"
>
>The space seemingly adds a third argument - which is illegal.
>
>Wasn't the space "\" prefixed before? Can we go back in functionality on
>this? What advantage do we get with the raw space? Any recommendations for
>getting around this problem?

setenv PATH "$PATH"":/d/jdk1.3.1/bin"

cgf
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