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: Sun, 7 May 2000 13:41:32 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: //localdriveletter/ broken? Message-ID: <20000507134132.F11675@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <000001bfb823$1910c9c0$1286b8d4@nexus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.12i In-Reply-To: ; from mdejong@cygnus.com on Sun, May 07, 2000 at 05:56:45AM -0700 On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 05:56:45AM -0700, Mo DeJong wrote: >On Sun, 7 May 2000, Norbert Schulze wrote: >This was changed in the net release. One would now use >/cygdrive/c/Temp to access C:\Temp. It wasn't changed. It was deprecated. //c/foo still works fine for me, as it should. /cygdrive/c/directory/file is the preferred method, though. If there is a *backslash* anywhere in that path, however, then that will no longer work in recent snapshots. We've made the decision that if you have a backslash in your filename you are intending to use MS-DOS syntax which, of course, does not understand the old //x cygwin convention for referencing a disk drive. >> Is //localdriveletter/directory/file a valid syntax for >> accessing files? The eCos 1.3.1 GUI configuration tool generates >> makefiles with this type of pathes. But since cygwin >> snapshot 2000-May-03 this is broken and make throws error >> 'No such file or directory'. Christopher Faylor Cygwin Engineering Manager (and developer) Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com