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Re: Win95b and long filenames of the /usr mount
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- Subject: Re: Win95b and long filenames of the /usr mount
- From: Bill Klein <bk at cheerful dot com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 20:42:16 -0400
Kevin Layer wrote:
>I don't know if this has been reported yet, but the OSR2 release of
>Windows 95 (aka "Windows 95b") doesn't have a DOS that allows long
>filenames. This means that until Windows starts you can't put
>...\H-i386-cygwin32\bin in your PATH. This also means you have a
>classic chicken and egg problem: if you do it after Windows starts,
>then all processes started by the explorer won't inherit the new
>PATH.
If I'm not mistaken, I didn't have a problem using
long file names for my path (they would just be
ignored until windows loads)... But if I am mistaken
(always a good possiblity), you can just use the
short representation of the folder names in the
path. For example, if you have something in
c:\my cool path\my neat program\
You can add the path:
c:\mycool~1\myneat~1\
Hope this helps!
Bill Klein <bk@cheerful.com> - http://bk.base.org/
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-Bill Klein
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