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Subject: RE: perl problem with cygwin path
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:20:23 +0100
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On 05 April 2007 15:17, Mike R Brown wrote:

>     For example 'echo $HOME' within a bash shell returns
> /cygdrive/c/users/charlie which is the correct path.  On previous version of
> Cygwin's Perl the statement...  $home = $ENV{HOME} , which should just
> return the environmental variable HOME, returns /cygpath/c/users/charlie
> which of coarse is correct.  The newer version of Perl returns
> c:\users\charlie which is the Windows way of stating the path to home.  

<puts on blindfold, holds one hand to forehead while making a concentrating
face and waves fingers of other hand out dramatically in front of self like a
stage mind-reader>

  You have activestate perl installed on that box and it's earlier in the path
than cygwin perl.  Setup is correctly showing you the cygwin version - which
you then aren't invoking.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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