Subject: RE: cygnus bugs
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

13 Jul 1997 02:45:34 -0700
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Distribution: cygnus
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Original-To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>,
        "'Tim Newsham'"
	 <[email-masked]>
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Tim Newsham wrote:
> - cygwin does not properly transform command line path names across
>   mount points.  If I am on drive "D:" and type "vi /tmp/foo",
>   I end up editing "D:\tmp\foo" and not "C:\tmp\foo" even though
>   "/tmp" is on "C:".  (vi is not compiled with cygwin).
>   Cygwin should transform the path to "C:\tmp\foo" for the benefit
>   of non-cygwin applications.
>

Use cygwin-compiled vi :-) What path cygwin should to transform? /tmp/foo? 
Cygwin doesn't knows abut command-line argument meaning. Do you wish cygwin 
to transform
"grep /tmp/foo" to "grep c:\tmp\foo" ?-) You will kill cygwin's authors 
after that :-)

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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