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RE: cygnus bugs
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Tim Newsham'" <newsham at aloha dot net>
- Subject: RE: cygnus bugs
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:02:05 +0400
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Tim Newsham wrote:
> - cygwin does not properly transform command line path names across
> mount points. If I am on drive "D:" and type "vi /tmp/foo",
> I end up editing "D:\tmp\foo" and not "C:\tmp\foo" even though
> "/tmp" is on "C:". (vi is not compiled with cygwin).
> Cygwin should transform the path to "C:\tmp\foo" for the benefit
> of non-cygwin applications.
>
Use cygwin-compiled vi :-) What path cygwin should to transform? /tmp/foo?
Cygwin doesn't knows abut command-line argument meaning. Do you wish cygwin
to transform
"grep /tmp/foo" to "grep c:\tmp\foo" ?-) You will kill cygwin's authors
after that :-)
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
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