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 Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 19:58:19 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to (dynamically) control Unix/Dos PATH-like variable translation Message-ID: <20010403195819.A30204@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010401222306.A31299@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from honza@ied.com on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 07:49:15PM -0400 On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 07:49:15PM -0400, Jan Vicherek wrote: >On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Would it be useful? Since this is the first time that I can recall >>that anyone has asked for this, I think it would be only marginally >>useful. > >Please see my post as of cca 2hrs ago in this same thread. You seem to be asking for accomodations in Cygwin to handler programs that are not built with Cygwin. That really isn't the goal of Cygwin. However, as I said, provide a patch. I'll evalutate it. FWIW, I will *not* accept a patch which "automatically" translates command line arguments. I think that is a remarkably bad idea. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple