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From: "Masterson, Dave" <dmasters AT rational DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com'" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: RE: Short option for Cygpath...?
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:04:48 -0700
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Searching the source is almost always longer than asking a (hopefull, well
conceived) question -- especially when you're working on other things.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 4:57 PM
To: 'cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com'
Subject: Re: Short option for Cygpath...?


On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:52:02PM -0700, Masterson, Dave wrote:
>I don't see it in "cygpath --help" for Cygwin 1.1 -- is there an option to
>have cygpath output the short name for a path, ie.:
>
>		<input>					<output>
>	/mnt/c/Program Files/Emacs	->	/mnt/c/PROGRA~1/Emacs
>	C:\Program Files\Emacs		->	C:\PROGRA~1\Emacs
>	/mnt/c/Program Files\Emacs	->	C:\PROGRA~1\Emacs
>
>It would save on having to figure out the quoting needed to handle names
>with spaces...

There is no such option in 1.1.4.  It will be in the next release.

Btw, you could look in the source to figure this out if you didn't trust
the help output.

cgf

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