Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:19:43 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with cp to a directory Message-ID: <20021108001943.GA25479@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200211072211.gA7MBqw04491@mx1.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211072211.gA7MBqw04491@mx1.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:36:57PM +0000, peter.coppens2@pandora.be wrote: >Hello, > >While attempting to port a number of scripts from MKS to the latest cygwin download, something like > >cp c:\\temp\\tmt.c tcp > >is executed (tcp is a directory). > >This returns > >cp: cannot create regular file `tcp/c:\\temp\\tmt.c': No such file or directory > >When using a target file or Unix style paths, it all works fine. > >Is this a known issue or intended behavior? Thanks for any suggestions. It's not a problem. It's a feature. This is Cygwin. Cygwin uses UNIX style paths. Use UNIX style paths if you want to use UNIX tools: cp /cygdrive/c/temp/tmt.c tcp cgf -- Please do not send me personal email with cygwin questions or observations. Use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ . -- 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/