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Re: Install problem on XP SP2
* Morgan Gangwere (Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:30:00 -0600)
> to DaveK: i once had the username "Sys Admin" under windows before i
> installed the cygwin stuff, and after, any script/app that used the
> username in a path with ls or bash or some other place without
> properly quoting it would fail.
That's expected behaviour. Exactly the same thing would happen under
Linux or any other OS under the sun. The antidote is to fix the
scripts and to omit spaces in user names.
T.
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