Heyho :) Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
Well, I felt the same way - I thought I should investigate this but not until the weekend. I hoped that someone will shed some light in the meantime :) > > I must say I'm a bit puzzled; I never look at it, but WIN32 path work very > well for arguments to programs but, I just test it now, they don't work for > executables in bash ;-( > > Just a small test: > > ~> c:\\WINNT\\system32\\notepad.exe > bash: c:\WINNT\system32\notepad.exe: command not found > ~> c:\\WINNT\\system32\\notepad > bash: c:\WINNT\system32\notepad: command not found > ~> ls -l c:\\WINNT\\system32\\notepad.exe > -rwxr-xr-x 1 Administ Aucun 46352 Nov 6 1996 > c:\WINNT\system32\notepad.exe > ~> notepad > ~> mount > C:\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) > C:\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) > C: on / type system (binmode) > > As can be seen my install is a little bit unusual (due to the need to mix > win32-native tools and cygwin tools without bothering too much with path > names) as I installed cygwin in the root of C:, but apart from that its > quite standard. > > However I don't have a clue to why this doesn't work. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/