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Re: cygpath and SHGetSpecialFolderPath
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:07:18 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: cygpath and SHGetSpecialFolderPath
- References: <20031015100559.GM14344@cygbert.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> While reading the thread about the cygpath problem, I looked into the
> code and found that the code is using SHGetSpecialFolderLocation/
> SHGetPathFromIDList. The same output could be achieved by just calling
> SHGetSpecialFolderPath. The only problem with this function is that
> it expects IE4 to be installed. Is that a showstopper for using that
> function in cygpath? Does anybody honestly still use an IE < 4.0?
>
> Corinna
There was some discussion on this a while back, I don't recall exactly
on which list. I'll keep looking and post a link once I find it.
Igor
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