On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Leon Vanderploeg wrote: > Greetings, > > I recently loaded Windows 7 Pro x64 on my laptop, and installed Cygwin > 1.7.8. I run a (GCC Compiled) backup program that calls diskshadow.exe -- > which I added to the C:\Windows\System32 directory. The program faults > because the shell call can't find the program. > > The Path variable is set with C:\Windows\System32 as the first entry, and > there are no errors. I've started new command prompts each time I edited > the Windows PATH variable, and even tried rebooting. > > Opening an elevated command prompt, windows finds the program just fine from > the path variable. Running Bash, the which command doesn't find > diskshadow.exe, even though it is there (in C:\Windows\System32).
less than 10 days ago http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00098.html that refers to http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00444.html > > While still in the bash window (from an elevated command prompt), If I cd to > /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32 and do "ls -la disk*", it finds other disk > programs such as diskpart.exe, but not diskshadow.exe, even though I know it > is there! This is also true of libcurl-3.dll that I added to > C:\Windows\System32. Windows sees it fine, but not bash. > > I have been reading documentation and googling till I can't see straight. > > Can anyone please help me understand what is happening? > > Thanks in advance! > Leon > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
