On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:56:22PM -0400, Jeff Mincy wrote: > 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.
c:/home/jmincy is still MS-DOS format. The Windows API allows you to use '\' and '/' interchangeably. We still want to translate that into /cygdrive/c/home/mincy for Cygwin's purposes so not converting it is not the right solution. In any event, I don't have any plans on changing the current method. The HOME conversion has been around for probably four years or so. cgf -- 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/
