On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Shankar Unni wrote: > > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > >> [...] you'll be using the MinGW libraries, and your program will not > >> understand POSIX paths (i.e., you'll have to use Win32 ones). > > > > Well, to be totally, utterly nitpicky, I believe "/WinNT/System32" is > > a valid POSIX filename which will be understood by Win32 programs as > > well (assuming that their current drive is "C:" :-). > > And also assuming that your Windows installation is in WinNT. With XP > that's C:\Windows! > > (Hey you were the one that started this "totally, utterly nitpicky" > stuff :-) )
Upping the level of nitpicking (and off-topicness) here, I don't see where Shankar assumes that the Windows installation is WinNT. In fact, Win98 will happily understand (and access, if it exists) the /WinNT/System32 directory (or file, as may well be). The only thing assumed here is that the directory is on the C: drive. :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/