Greetings, Mark Hansen! > On 8/25/2016 7:53 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Linda Walsh! >> >>> Andrey Repin wrote: >>>> Greetings, Ken Brown! >>>> >>>>> The documentation also says, "The usage of Win32 paths, though possible, >>>>> is deprecated...." I wonder if this should be strengthened to say >>>>> something like, "The usage of Win32 paths, though possible, is strongly >>>>> deprecated and may be removed in a future release of Cygwin." >>>> >>>> That would be the day Cygwin die for me. >>>> -- >>>> With best regards, Andrey Repin >>>> Wednesday, August 24, 2016 12:50:55 >>>> Sorry for my terrible english... >>> --- >> >>> Curious -- but why? How do you make use of win32 pathnames >>> ( "C:\bin" versus "/bin" or "/c/bin" or "/cygdrive/c/bin" ) >>> depending on how your cygwin is configured). >> >> I make use of win32 paths directly. >> diff and grep are the most used tools. >> >>> I'm wondering if maybe there is a misunderstanding? >> >> I don't think so. >> >>> For the most part -- many cygwin apps may not work >>> correctly if given a win32 path in the same place you'd >>> put a *nix path due to the backslashes being turned into >>> quote sequences. >> >> That's too bad for such poor apps. >> >>> I mean, you can't type: >> >>>> ls C:\bin >>> (instead of ) >>>> ls /c/bin
> Can we differrentiate between C:/bin and C:\bin? > I've always used C:/bin. Using drive identifiers and UNIX-style path > separators. > Is the proposal that this no longer be valid under cygwin? There's (hopefully) no such proposal. Only a warning that it may not work in all cases. Also, @ Linda, the string escaping is done by the shell before passing arguments to the command, as I understand. If I'm starting an application not from shell, the app, being a good citizen, should not second-guess the arguments it is given. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, August 26, 2016 15:29:53 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple