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Ugh - top-posting reformatted. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU

>
> On 2/6/06, Eric Blake <ericblake AT comcast DOT net> wrote:
                                  ^^^^
Ugh - http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR

>>>PATH is "inherited" from my WinXP environment as usual but it is not
>>>prepend with "/bin" like before the upgrade, and is now appended with
>>>".".
According to Julien Thewys on 2/8/2006 2:58 AM:
> Solution is to reinstall 'base-files' (see
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00222.html).
>
> My PATH was appended with '.' because of a trailing ';' in my Windows PATH.

Yes, this is correct behavior, but it often catches people by surprise.
POSIX requires an empty string in your PATH to be treated as the current
directory, and while people are less likely to start their Windows PATH
with ; or to have ;; in the middle, a trailing ; is pretty common from
applications that don't know any better on Windows.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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