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Date:	Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:57:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Meaningful Windows locations and cygpath (Was Re: Is it possible
	to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp?)
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:

> > P.S. As an aside, I've just discovered that the -A flag is ignored or
> > non-functional on Win98...  I'll look into that.
>
> A good place to look would be:
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#CYGPATH
>
> "On Win9x systems with only a single user, -A has no effect; -D and -AD would
> have the same output. "

Ah.  Missed that.  Thanks!

What I meant, however, was that I'll look into the fix (this really isn't
correct behavior, as even with a single user there are the All Users
directories on Win98).  If the API calls don't return the right values, we
should guess, or something...
	Igor
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