# the parens around makepath shouldn't be necessary but appear to be
# needed on cygwin, presumably because makepath is a /bin/sh function
-(makepath ${LONGDIR}) || test_skipped "unable to create long directory"
+makepath $LONGDIR
+[ -d $LONGDIR ] || test_skipped "unable to create long directory"
date > ${LONGDIR}/1
ls -la / > ${LONGDIR}/2
checkit "$RSYNC --delete -avH ${FROM}/ ${TO}" ${FROM}/ ${TO}