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RE: Re: Changing HOME for PERL


Quoting Windows Style path names does work.

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
Of Mark J. Reed
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:39 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Andrew@defaria.com
Subject: Re: Re: Changing HOME for PERL

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dexter Michael wrote:
> $ echo $PATH

[...]

Holy giant PATH, Batman!  That's like 1800 characters long! Not that
that's necessarily a problem on its own...

I'm curious about this bit:

...:"C:/Program Files/Common Files/EMC":...

Does quoting the Windows-style pathname actually work?  That seems
suspicious.

-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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