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Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:23:55 -0800
From:	Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: cygpath only works if the path presently exists
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"Wheeler, Frederick W (Research)" wrote:

> My real concern is converting this //nsk1prn02/c304_p to this \\nsk1prn02\c304_p.  This is a valid win2k printer path that I could pass to /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/print using the /D: option, but cygpath won't convert it.

I don't know if this helps in your situation but if you just want to
convert slashes you can use something like:

$ echo //nsk1prn02/c304_p | sed -e 's,/,\\,g'
\\nsk1prn02\c304_p

or perhaps something like

print /d:`echo $PRINTER | sed -e 's,/,\\,g'` `cygpath -w "$FILENAME"`

Brian

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