Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20001010121614.021bac30@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:16:44 -0400 To: DJ Delorie , dave.banham@tde.alstom.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: BUG: Invalid assumption about file paths beginning with '\' Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <200010101559.LAA08657@envy.delorie.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:59 AM 10/10/2000, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I would have thought that the whole point of the CygWin project was > >... to make Windows look like a POSIX/Unix environment, so that it >would be easy to port existing GNU tools to it without having to teach >all those tools how to behave like Windows programs. And what would be the advantage of that?!;-) Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com