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: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:25:37 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.3.2/Win2K: ar confused by drive letters Message-ID: <20010621132537.L6318@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <084b01c0f9ee$49e71eb0$1000a8c0@abeast1.com> <9314-Thu21Jun2001114851+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> <008d01c0fa59$1e489340$01000001@abeast1.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <008d01c0fa59$1e489340$01000001@abeast1.com>; from david.abrahams@rcn.com on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:50:22AM -0400 On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:50:22AM -0400, David Abrahams wrote: >Thanks for the info. > >Just for the record, are the cygwin tools supposed to support standard >windows paths, or have I just been "lucky" so far? The cygwin tools are ports of UNIX tools. The vast majority of the tools have not been modified to support MS-DOS paths. So, whether they work or not is a matter of chance. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple