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On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:01:29PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec 29 17:11, Jon Beniston wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> cygpath can read a list of paths to convert from a file, when started with
>> -file. However, how do you specify paths with spaces in them in this mode?
>> It seems quoting the path or using \ doesn't seem to work. E.g:
>
>No, it doesn't.  Space is used as the field separator in the file.  I
>assume we need an extension like allowing to specify another separator.
>Another one for next year...

That's an option that I added.  I am surprised that it is space delimited since
I thought I intended to make it newline delimited.

I'll take a look at it.

cgf

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