Minor diff: /bin/ksh.exe

Paul McFerrin pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com
Tue Aug 4 21:53:00 GMT 2009


Dave:  Let's put this prob on hold for a while.  At least til I 
investigate it some more.  Something is acting weird.  This prob has 
disappeared!  I tried unloading everything just in case some name cache 
had it already expanded.  I did get correct results from using latest 
pdksh.  Weird.

Dave Korn wrote:
> Paul McFerrin wrote:
>   
>> Just want to point out a slightly difference in behavior of ksh
>>    @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2
>> between Cygwin 1.5 & 1.7  First, the above is a older version of pdksh
>> that I had to tweek the cygwin sources a l-o-n-g time ago.  Under 1.5,
>> the following does work properly:
>>    $ cd /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/
>>     
>
>   LERN2SHELL.  Try "echo /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/" to see if
> you've actually got a real path there, or no matching path, or several matching
> paths. Try stripping components off one by one and seeing which one you made a
> mistake in.  The multiple expansions work just fine for me:
>
> $ PS1="$ " pdksh
> $ cd /cygdrive/c/Doc*/Adm*/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Application
> Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/bfwp4loc.default
> $
>
>   Also, LERN2BUGREPORT.  You told us all about how you feel, but completely
> omitted the crucial detail of WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS when you try it.  Error
> message?  No error message?  Boxing glove on a spring comes out of your computer
> and punches you in the nose?
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
>
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