Subject: Re: pathname conversion
From: [email-masked] (banders)

25 Sep 1997 21:35:48 -0700
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Chris Faylor wrote:
> 
> In article <[email-masked]>,
> Sergey Okhapkin  <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >Fabrice.Popineau wrote:
> >> Cygnus's goal was to allow Unix programs to run unmodified on NT.
> >> But there is a need too for Gnu utilities to run under Win32, with
> >> Win32 specifics. Emacs was ported and sources include Win32 and Unix
> >
> >I can't understand the discussion about pthnames at all... Gnu-win32 tools allows to use both unix and win32 name conventions:
> >
> >H:\>ls -l h:\site
> >total 1110
> >-rwxrwxrwx   1 Administ Domain A   320512 Jul 05 00:00 bash.exe
> [snip]
> 
> I think that the main complaint is that this won't work under bash.
> And, something like:
> 
>         write /etc/passwd

Doesn't seem to be a problem with the cygwin stuff since this was
written by some non gnuwin32 developer. So you could patch write to use
the path conversion utilities (everybody patches executables, don't
they?).

[followed by big goofy grin with tongue firmly in cheek]

> 
> won't work either.
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