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Subject: Re: Make and javac compliler problem in bash
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:33:44 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000612173539.00b3d690@gqserver.houston.geoquest.slb.com> from "Woody Jin" at Jun 12, 2000 05:47:21 PM
From: "J. J. Farrell" <jjf@bcs.org.uk>
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> From: Woody Jin <wjin@houston.geoquest.slb.com>
> 
> But a better way would be to resolve it within Cygwin.
> By default, any application that is not in cygwin may be considered as
> Windows native application (WNA). So, when you launch WNAs,
> cygwin can convert the unix style directory to DOS style.  After the 
> conversion,
> pass the converted MS-DOS style path to the WNA.
> I don't know why you think that this is so impossible or so difficult.
> It is just  putting the gvim's functionality into Cygwin.
> 
> If an application that is not WNA and not in Cygwin, cygwin may provide
> some facility to register those applications. Maybe any application that
> uses cygwin.dll may be considered as non-WNAs.

I'm sure that if you submit patches to fully, robustly, and
unambiguously implement this functionality, they'll be seriously
considered for inclusion.


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