Thanks, Luke! This explains it all! I'm sorry for the false alarm :(
Monday, March 04, 2002, 5:19:29 PM, you wrote: LB> /bin/sh on Cygwin doesn't understand the ~ character. It's a rather LB> limited shell. LB> try this: LB> :set shell=/bin/bash LB> Luke LB> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >> Hey, there! :) >> >> I have noticed the following behaviour of VIM and thought it is worth >> reporting it to the list. Trying to execute an external command from >> vim and passing it a file name parameter from my home directory using >> the tilde character fails: >> >> sha1sum: ~/gdbtk.ini: No such file or directory >> >> shell returned 1 >> >> Hit ENTER or type command to continue -- 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/