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Re: Will win32 style paths ever work in mksh on cygwin?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru>
- To: Oliver <traveler124 at yahoo dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 20:30:28 +0400
- Subject: Re: Will win32 style paths ever work in mksh on cygwin?
- References: <4ED74766.7010301@yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Oliver!
> On the other hand, the cygwin documentation seems to claim that cygwin
> will support both, win32 style paths and POSIX style paths.
Cygwin, as in, the utilities, when fed with native path - mostly works.
Specific program on the inside of it - it's up to that program.
> Are there any plans to make mksh on cygwin win32-path aware, or will
> mksh on cygwin support only POSIX?
You have to ask mksh author(s).
> If it remains to be POSIX only, and pdksh apparently gone from the list
> of shells, is the only alternative to rewrite all existing ksh scripts
> that might use win32 style paths?
The last trend in *NIX society, that I noticed, is to write portable scripts.
Which means, they should work with /bin/sh. (The base POSIX shell implementation.)
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 01.12.2011, <20:26>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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