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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:38:26 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Bizarre Cygwin/Explorer/paths problem half-solved
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:39:49PM -0400, Lev Bishop wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:28, Christopher Faylor  wrote:
>
>>> Is there any documentation on who rewrites arguments, under what
>>> conditions, and how they're altered?
>>
>> I missed this when it was first mentioned.  Cygwin doesn't munge command
>> line arguments.  Why would it assume that /e,something was a windows
>> path?  That makes no sense.
>
>Nobody is munging anything.
>
>What's going on here is as simple as the difference:
>
>bash-3.2$ cmd /c echo "a b c"
>"a b c"
>bash-3.2$ cmd /c echo a b c
>a b c
>
>There's really no more to it than that.

Yes.  I understand.  There was one message which indicated that cygwin
was converting paths on the command line which is, of course, nonsense.

cgf

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