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Date:	Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:51:19 -0500
From:	AJ Reins <tbisp AT uswest DOT net>
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Carl Thompson wrote:
> 
> Woody Jin wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> I like this idea, but I think this functionality would more properly go into
> the BASH patches for Cygwin than in the Cygwin DLL itself.  Since BASH (like
> all Unix shells) processes metacharacters in command lines itself before
> sending them to the application, this would be an natural fit for that
> section of the code.  The only real tricky part would be figuring out how to
> allow BASH to figure out whether an application is Cygwin or native Windows
> (or is that easy?).
> 

To quote J.J.:
>I'm sure that if you submit patches to fully, robustly, and
>unambiguously implement this functionality, they'll be seriously
>considered for inclusion.

By the way, cygpath is your friend.

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AJ Reins - tbisp<AT>uswest.net -or- tbisp<AT>my-deja.com
Bash maintainer for Cygwin
If there is no time like the present,
 but we never have the time,
does this mean there is no present?

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