This is the mail archive of the cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com mailing list for the Cygwin project. See the Cygwin home page for more information.
Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]

Re: long path names

--- Jan-Friedrich Mutter <jmutter@bigfoot.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Lets say, I have a path: c:\longchardir\evenlongerchardir
> 
> if I do now 'cd c:\longch~1\evenlo~1' in the bash, the prompt shows:
> //c/longch~1/evenlo~1' $

Compliments of MSDOS.

> I would like to have 
> //c/longchardir/evenlongerchardir $
> 
> in my .bashrc I have 
> export PS1='\h:\w \$ '
> to show the path in the prompt.
> 
> is there a workaround ?

I believe the workaround would be to type
cd //c/longchardir/evenlongerchardir

The value you type is what is displayed as the path in the prompt.  I suppose
if you desired something besides this you'll have to download the code and
modify it to do what you want.
===
"Earnie Boyd" <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
CYGWIN RELATED HELP:
 DOCUMENTATION: <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/docs.html>
       DLLHELP: <http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/>
ARCHIVE SEARCH: <http://www.delorie.com/archives/> OR
                <http://www.eGroups.com/list/gnu-win32/>
_________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com


--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com