Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <003e01c1c19c$d0b05300$d700a8c0@mchasecompaq> From: "Michael A Chase" To: "Timothy Canham" , References: <3C7FF4B8.4DA55@jpl.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Perl reports different cwd() value Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:18:00 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Canham" To: Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 13:38 Subject: Perl reports different cwd() value > If you are in: > > c:/temp (alternate way to address drives under cygwin) > > and you perform "perl -e "use Cwd; cwd();" " you get: > > /cygdrive/c/temp. > > Any way to work around this? > > Version 1.3.9 That _is_ the POSIX path for c:/temp unless you've created a mount point for c:/ or c:/temp/. If you want c:/temp, you'd need to use a non-Cygwin build of Perl; in which case this would be off topic.. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- 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/