Tom Rodman wrote:
Greetings:
~ $ date;cygcheck -c cygwin
Sun Aug 24 11:37:36 CDT 2008
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
cygwin 1.5.25-15 OK
~ $ "$COMSPEC"
-bash: D:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe: command not found
~ $ ls -l "$COMSPEC"
-rwxrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators SYSTEM 236816 Nov 2 2004
D:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe*
bash will not run a command using a windows path to it anymore.
Sorry for not "keeping up" - I did go through the cygwin
announcements for 2008, but probably need to go back even further.
I will plan on doing this.
When this syntax stopped being supported and why? - not that I object ;->
There hasn't been any effort to support Windows paths in Cygwin for a long
time. That doesn't mean it wouldn't have worked sometime in the past. It's
just that doing so is not a goal of this project. Use the POSIX form of the
path and will work nicely for you - /cygdrive/d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe. If
you need to use COMSPEC, run it through 'cygpath' to convert it to a POSIX
path.
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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