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Date:	Fri, 10 May 2013 10:33:07 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Cygwin path conversion routines
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On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 07:56:26PM +0000, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>It'd be great to have http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/func-cygwin-conv-path.html
>also document what happens if a path passed for conversion does already look
>good.  E.g. what Win-2-Posix conversion does with things like
>"/cygdrive/c/cygwin" or just "/bin", and what is case-sensitivity
>of the conversion routines...  (E.g. "/cygdrive/C" and "/cygdrive/c"
>appear to work equally well, but not "/Cygdrive/c".)
>
>I know one can experiment to see the results, but the documented
>behavior saves from guessing all the possible cases.

This is a free software project:

<a href="http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC">PTC</a>

cgf

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