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From: pete AT horus DOT cix DOT co DOT uk (Pete Jordan)
Subject: Re: pathname conversion
22 Sep 1997 17:41:41 -0700 :
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earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) wrote:

> Does anyone know of a command/function which will give the translation
> of the cygnus path name and vice versa?
>
> I'm using vim and it would be nice to have the translated full path to
> Win32 when trying to edit with vim the file that is in a cygwin.dll
> translated path.

Have a look at the code in my debash utility
(http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/download/debash-1.0.tar.gz) as this does
essentially what you're asking for to allow GNU-Win32 paths to be passed
to ordinary Windows applications.

Pete Jordan ~ Horus Communications ~ http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/

"Pass me another elf, sergeant, this one's split"
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