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Date:	Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:39:13 -0500
To:	Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	RE: cygpath question
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At 06:33 PM 1/25/2003, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>At 15:04 2003-01-25, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>>At 07:03 PM 1/24/2003, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>> >Rob,
>> >
>> >...
>>
>> >I really don't know what's different on my system that makes this nifty feature work for me. I'm inclined to think it's not a BASH setting or anything specific to my Cygwin configuration.
>>
>> >It works in CMD.exe, too, including the part about adding quotes only when needed. It could be something I configured via Xteq's X-Setup or TweakUI. I'm an inveterate customizer.
>>
>> >Perhaps it depends on which version of Windows you're running? I have Win2K Pro with SP3 and pretty much all the updates installed. (What am I saying "pretty much?" I'm compulsive about updating!)
>>
>>
>>OK, I played with this a bit and I think I'm narrowing in on a point of significance.  I found that my console bash and cmd worked exactly as Randall suggests if the path I was dragging and dropping had a space in it's name.  In these cases, the result was quoted (with "").  Otherwise, the path that resulted was not quoted.  Randall, is this what you see there?
>>
>>
>>Larry Hall
>
>
>Larry,
>
>Yes, exactly--quotes are supplied only when the drag entity includes spaces (anywhere in the absolute name). Which, of course, means I ought to read my own posts once in a while, since without the quotes and the unconditional presence of backslashes, this "feature" is less than ideal.



OK, well at least it's good to know we see the same things.  It's an
interesting feature though.  I'm sure it has some other good uses. ;-)

Thanks,



Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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