Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 18:55:41 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: David May <dmay AT tvi DOT cc DOT nm DOT us>
cc: kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: changing directories in Bash
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On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, David May wrote:

> >    I lost the original message asking help about changing directory into 
> >    the c:\Program Files directory under Windows 95 under bash.  The 
> >    only way I could get it to work is to use
> >    cd /Progra~1.
> >    Then pwd returns
> >    /Progra~1
> >    as the current working directory.
> 
> Sorry I didn't make this clear, but I wrote this AFTER I tried all 
> your suggestions.

Did you care to set LFN=y in the environment before invoking `bash'?  The 
DJGPP.ENV file comes with LFN disabled by default, so if you didn't edit 
it and didn't set LFN=y from the DOS prompt, `bash' (and any other DJGPP 
program) won't support long filenames at all.