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bad PATH conversion under XP
- From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille dot lefevre-lists at laposte dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:14:49 +0100
- Subject: bad PATH conversion under XP
Hi,
v2$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PC213736 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin
aka
Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3
though SSH at least :
v2$ regtool get /machine/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session\
Manager/Environment/PATH
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\orawin\BIN;C:\Program
Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;"C:\Program
Files\Hummingbird\Connectivity\7.00\Accessories\";C:\Program
Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;D:\sfu\Perl\bin\;D:\sfu\common\;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
Files\Samsung\Samsung PC Studio 3\
gives :
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/orawin/BIN:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/ATI Technologies/ATI Control Panel:"C:/Program
Files/Hummingbird/Connectivity/7.00/Accessories/":/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/QuickTime/QTSystem/:/cygdrive/d/sfu/Perl/bin/:/cygdrive/d/sfu/common/:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/Samsung/Samsung PC Studio 3/:/bin
note the unconverted path between double-quotes :
"C:/Program Files/Hummingbird/Connectivity/7.00/Accessories/"
also, how about to get rid of final slashes (.../ => ...) ?
this appear to work well under Windows Vista (i.e. : /cygdrive/c/Program
Files/Hummingbird/Connectivity/7.00/Accessories)
Regards,
Cyrille Lefevre
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