Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:57:51 -0500 To: Cygwin Subject: Re: pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh Message-ID: <20000321165751.A21202@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, Cygwin References: <200003212109.QAA25555@hrothgar.gw.com> <38D7F0A2.8C5F68F4@veritas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <38D7F0A2.8C5F68F4@veritas.com>; from rmcgowan@veritas.com on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:58:58PM -0800 On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:58:58PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: >When I used the //c/dir... format to change to "Multimedia Files" and >typed pwd, it printed out "/cygdrive/c/Multimedia Files" (expected) but >"echo $PWD" printed "/c/Multimedia Files". This is clearly not >correct. It is precisely because of problems like this that we switched to using /cygdrive/x rather than //x. Many UNIX utilities assume that they can clean up multiple slashes. That results in your "/c/Multimedia Files" above. That's why the //x form will be deprecated in the next release. -Chris Faylor -Cygwin Engineering Manager -Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat Company -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com