Re: Meaningful Windows locations and cygpath (Was Re: Is it possible tocopy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp?)

2002-10-24 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
> P.S. As an aside, I've just discovered that the -A flag is ignored or > non-functional on Win98... I'll look into that. A good place to look would be: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#CYGPATH "On Win9x systems with only a single user, -A has no effect; -D and -AD would have th

Re: Meaningful Windows locations and cygpath (Was Re: Is it possible tocopy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp?)

2002-10-23 Thread Doug VanLeuven
In 2000 domain and probably .NET, active directory, group policy, user config there are 4 folders and 1 subfolder that receive special consideration from MS in domain administration "$USERPROFILE/Application Data" "$USERPROFILE/Desktop" "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" "$USERPROFILE/My Document

Meaningful Windows locations and cygpath (Was Re: Is it possible tocopy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp?)

2002-10-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hmm... cygpath currently has options to print the windows Documents and Settings directory (-H), as well as the Start Menu/Programs directory (-P). Should we add more options for the other meaningful Windows directories (such as My Documents, for example)? What other special names should we be a