Long Path Name troubles

John Huddleston jhudd@cody.itc.nrcs.usda.gov
Thu Nov 18 05:07:00 GMT 1999


I just received the source CD and installed the B20 full.exe on my
Win98 at home.  Very nice.

Edit the autoexec.bat file and obey the Microsoft rules for collapsing
the "longer than eight character" names to eight character names.
In your case, add the following line to the autoexec.bat file.

set PATH=X:\src\Cygnus\cygwin~1\H-i586~1\bin;%PATH%

John Huddleston


----- Original Message -----
From: Dan St.André <saint@savantage.com>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 1:45 PM
Subject: Long Path Name troubles


> Folks,
>     I recently installed Cygwin-B20 onto Win98 Second Edition.
> The binaries wound up in the folder:
>        "X:\src\CygWin\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\i586-cygwin32\bin"
>
> I've had troubles on this Win98 box using such a long string on my PATH
> and elsewhere.  there must be some way to flatten the installed Cygwin
> folder tree.
>
> ~~~ Dan 0:-D
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