Re: [h-e-w] Re: msys and locate problem with eshell

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Brian Elmegaard <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:35:17 -0100
> 
> c:/Documents and Settings/be/Application Data $ locate cmd.exe
> c:/Documents and Settings/be/Application Data $ 
> 
>   /:
>  Matches for cmd.exe:
> 
>     c:\Program Files\Emacs\EmacsW32\gnuwin32\bin\locate.exe: 
> c:/progra~1/FindUtils/var/locatedb: No such file or directory

You either don't have the locatedb.dat file (need to run updatedb to
create it), or did not set the LOCATE_PATH environment variable to
point to the exact absolute file name of that file on your system.  By
default, this port of `locate' looks in c:/progra~1/FindUtils/var,
evidently.