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Mumit Khan wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > The unix version of Tcl build with Cygwin and configured with `gcc -mno-win32'. > > As a side effect, Tcl understands Cygwin paths. > > Thanks Earnie for reminding me of this! I'll have to try it out and see > what happens. > > The current Cygwin Tcl port's trouble with Cygwin paths/mounts is quite > fixable IMO, and it may be a matter of doing the path/name translation > in a different place than is done right now. I remember trying to fix > this a *long* time ago, but ran into a Cygwin bug in resolving relative > symlink; I belive cgf fixed when he bacame an active contributor (like > I said, it was a long time ago), but I never moved it off the back > burner. > > My memory is rather shoddy on what exactly the potential fix was and > wheter it actually fixed the problem or not, but we'll cross that > bridge later. A few things have changed in the path recognition since you've been gone so even if you remember exactly what it is, it is likely not to work the same. If a path contains a : in column 2 or contains a \ character it is now determined to be an absolute windows path. Chris, is this the correct wording for this feature? Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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