From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:53:11 -0400 Lets try again. Cygwin has several environment variables that it translates back and forth between MS-DOS and UNIX format. Two obvious ones are PATH and HOME. When a cygwin process is first started, it translates these variables from MS-DOS format to UNIX format for its internal use. In most cases, when cygwin execs a new process it converts these environment variables back into MS-DOS format so that the new process can see native MS-DOS paths.
I was wondering where those backslashes were coming from. My xemacs is being started up with HOME=c:\home\jmincy - and I had to put in an explicit cd in my .emacs to fix the path. My autoexec.bat has the following two lines. set HOME=c:/home/jmincy set PATH=c:\Cygwin\bin;c:\Cygwin\usr\bin;c:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin;C:\PROGRA~1\MSOFFICE\OFFICE;%PATH%;C:\PROGRA~1\Tcl\bin; Maybe a slightly tweaked improvement would be to do the dos/unix path conversion only for environment variables that start off in DOS format. For my two variables, I don't want you messing with HOME, since I explicitly wrote it in a unixy path format. However, I'm glad that you you are fixing the above PATH, since that has to be in dos format so that the rest of windows works -jeff -- 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/
