Command not found eventhough it is on one of the PATH directories

Larry Hall lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com
Fri Aug 13 15:55:00 GMT 2004


At 11:36 AM 8/13/2004, you wrote:
>Yes, it is, by everybody. The command history below shows that I can
>exectute it when I specify the full path.
>
>Andres Corrada-Emmanuel
>Senior Research Fellow
>Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory
>University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>
>On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Ken Dibble wrote:
>
>>
>> Is it executable?
>>
>> ls -l  /cygdrive/u/dl/Jython/jython/dist/jython.bat
>>
>>
>> Andres Corrada-Emmanuel wrote:
>>
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >I'm having a strange problem with Cygwin and the PATH variable.
>> >
>> >I try the following:
>> >
>> >/home/corrada
>> >6 % jython.bat
>> >jython.bat: Command not found.
>> >
>> >/home/corrada
>> >7 % /cygdrive/u/dl/Jython/jython/dist/jython.bat
>> >Jython 2.2a0 on java1.4.2_05 (JIT: null)


WFM in /tmp.  I guess I can only point to <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
Beyond that, maybe you'll find the results of strace helps you figure out
what's going on in your environment.


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