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On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:13:08AM +0100, John S Cooper wrote: >o The FAQ and User's Guide seem to refer to B20 -- are there equivalent docs > for the new 1.1.0, or does everything in the older docs still apply? The FAQ should make this pretty clear. There is a disclaimer at the top of the document. >o What's the deal with these new "/cygdrive" path prefixes? Check out the documentation that is referenced at the project web page: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ It actually does document cygdrive. The user documentation should be relatively up to date with the net release. >o We have a Makefile that needs to pass the current directory to a (non-cygwin) > program. If we use $PWD, we get the /cygdrive style path, which the program > doesn't grok. Do I have use conditionally (our Makefile also runs on Linux) > call cygpath to convert to Windows style paths in all places we invoke this > program? Yes. >o Is there a way to tell cygwin to always use Windows style paths (with drive > letters) rather than the "unix" paths that are only understood by other > cygwin programs? No. >o I've seen people allude to a CYGWIN variable -- where is this documented? In the documentation referenced above. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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