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Date:	Fri, 19 May 2000 16:34:47 +0100
Message-Id:	<200005191534.QAA25161@murgh.cygnus.co.uk>
To:	jeremy AT sourcegear DOT com
Subject:	Re: cygdrive, pwd, and windows apps
From:	jlarmour AT redhat DOT co DOT uk (Jonathan Larmour)
Newsgroups:	cygnus.gnu-win32
In-Reply-To:	<392553C7.66AE6190@sourcegear.com>
Organization:	Red Hat UK Ltd.
Cc:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com

In article <392553C7 DOT 66AE6190 AT sourcegear DOT com> you write:
>I have a problem in that if i try:
>
>notepad /cygdrive/c/sometextfile.txt
>
>notepad (being a windows app) has no idea how to find /cygdrive.  So how
>do I easily get the dos-style path?

notepad `cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/sometextfile.txt` should do it.

Jifl
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