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RE: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K
- From: "Demmer, Thomas" <TDemmer at krafteurope dot com>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:00:29 +0200
- Subject: RE: Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K
Davied wrote:
>I reproduce this behaviour.
>
>Looks like the PATH environment variable is not valid anymore after $VAR
>has been asigned?
>
>David
No, it cannot start external programs. The error message is
bash: /usr/bin/ls.exe: Invalid argument
All internal commands I have tested work.
echo $PATH
shows the expected output.
Setting VAR=
reverts to the normal behavior.
Odd you cannot
$ strace /bin/echo oops
to figure out where it fails.
System:
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 KFIDEMUC110528 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin
$ echo $BASH_VERSION
2.05b.0(1)-release
Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüssen,
Thomas Demmer
Kraft Foods R&D Inc.
Tel.: +49 (0)89 62738-6302
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