PATH conversion bug

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Kai Henningsen <kai@cats.ms> wrote:
> The following PATH sequence:
> 
> 		;W:.;Z:.;Y:.;X:.;
> 
> which is typical for drives mapped by the Netware client, gets
> converted into the following cygwin PATH sequence:
> 
> 		://W.://Z.://Y.://X.:
> 
> This is a bug and doesn't work.

Not a cygwin bug!!

> 
> I don't know if this is a general problem with converting relative path
> entries.
> 
> Anyway, the result is long pauses during every PATH search,
> presumably while the machine is looking for network hosts named
> "W." and so on.
> 

Most likely correct.

To solve/workaround this problem, modify the PATH in the ~/.bashrc file to be
what it should be.  NOTE: The smaller the PATH the faster cygwin will be.


=====
Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >

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