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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Michael Mustun To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: 1.1.8: can't access /home/user from a windows native executable like rc.exe Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:06:22 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01071110062202.02318@debian100> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 1.1.8: can't access /home/user from a windows native executable like rc.exe Why does the following not work: - - - $ RC.EXE afile.rc afile.rc (2): error RC2135 : file not found: /home/app/main.ico - - - The file /home/app/main.ico is accessible and readable with vi etc.. Contents of afile.rc: - - - $ cat ./afile.rc DIOS_ICON ICON DISCARDABLE "/home/app/main.ico" - - - If I use "//nthost/app/main.ico" (UNC notation?) instead of "/home/app/main.ico", it works. Again, why can RC.EXE and other m$-tools not access files in the posix notation (/a/bb/ccc)? Thanks in advance, Michael Mustun -- -------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mustun mailto:mustun@ise.ch -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/