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On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 06:09:40PM -0700, Tom Weichmann wrote: >I am not sure what you mean. I opened up a dos prompt and tried >cd /tmp and received an invalid switch error. /tmp is a valid Windows path. The Windows command shell may not recognize it but it is a valid path name and many programs, especially ones with UNIX origins will properly understand it whether they are cygwin programs or not. /tmp (or \tmp) refers to the tmp directory at the root of the current drive. So, if you are running on your "D:" drive, you just have to create a d:\tmp directory. This should be recognized by a non-cygwin program as being equivalent to /tmp. >I was hoping that there was some kind of work around for this, but I >can not think of anything. Is there any way to set the CYGWIN env >variable to prevent this translation of file names? Do you think that I would have been making alternate suggestions if there was some "work around" for this? The best workaround is to compile the program using cygwin. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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