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From: garbanzo AT hooked DOT net (Alex)
Subject: Re: Accessing pathname translation...
17 Oct 1997 01:43:17 -0700 :
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On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Andrew Stevens wrote:

> Is there any of accessing the cygwin library's functions mapping
> UNIX-style pathnames into native Win32 ones?  grep-ing around
> in the headers hasn't revealed anything other than the official
> UNIX syscalls etc.
> 
> I'm trying to build a patch for NT Emacs to support Cygnus-style
> pathnames, a full port onto GNUWin32 is not practical or
> even really necessary.   All that is required is consistent
> mapping of filenames.

cygwin32_conv_to_win32_path
cygwin32_conv_to_full_win32_path
cygwin32_conv_to_full_posix_path
cygwin32_conv_to_posix_path

I'm not exactly sure what a "full path" signifies.

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