On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 04:37:49PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> Maybe someone will be kind enough to tell me what this is in reference to.
> >
> >The -l option in the cygpath distributed with the cygwin package prints
> >out garbage. The same cygpath compiled anew works. The problem is
> >described (among other places) here:
> >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00749.html
>
> Thank you for the URL.
>
> I believe I've fixed the problem. It was due to the incorrect protyping
> of GetLongPathName. The code in cygpath could use a good cleanup. I
> did a little but there is still a number of stylistic problems.
>
> I'm generating a snapshot now.
>
> cgf
This fixed the problem:
$ cygpath-old -w -l /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/drivers/etc/
0?"
$ cygpath -w -l /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/drivers/etc/
c:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\
$
Thanks,
Igor
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