Can't find ping.exe, path is messed up

[Eric Lilja]

Eric Lilja skrev:
> Dave Korn skrev:
>> On 06 April 2007 12:55, Eric Lilja wrote:
>>
>>> Here's my cycheck.out attached, anyone see anything funny? 
>>
>> Path:    C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
>>     C:\cygwin\bin
>>     C:\cygwin\bin
>>     C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
>>     C:\cygwin\home\hivemind\mplayer
>>     c:\PHP\
>>     %SystemRoot%\system32
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>     %SystemRoot%
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>     %SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>     c:\mingw32-make-3.81-2
>>     c:\jdk1.5.0_09\bin
>>     c:\Qt\4.2.3\bin
>>     c:\Program Files\Common Files\Teleca Shared
>>     c:\subversion\bin
>>     c:\vs8\VC\bin
>>     c:\vs8\Common7\IDE
>>     c:\emacs\bin
>>
>>
>>   I'm not used to seeing those unexpanded %-vars in cygcheck output.  
>> Where
>> did they come from?
> 
> Hmm, neither am I. echo %SystemRoot% in cmd.com works just fine, but if 
> I do echo %Path% in cmd.com they're not expanded. They are expanded on 
> my laptop. Hmm, I wonder how this happened. I have a feeling it's one or 
> the other of my two path altering programs, but maybe it's something 
> completely different. Thanks for trying to help!

Ok, I think the problem may be that I am setting the type to REG_SZ and 
not REG_EXPAND_SZ in my registry handler dll. I will update it and try 
again and post back.

> 
>>
>>
>>     cheers,
>>       DaveK
> 
> - Eric
> 
> 


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