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 Message-ID: <79218202D4B9D4118A290002A508E13B79C3B8@pnzexchange.pharos-intranet.co.nz> From: Ross Smith To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: RE: Mixing / and \ path separators Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:46:13 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf-cygwin@cygwin.com] > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:08:27PM +0100, Anton Ertl wrote: > > > >If so, how should I deal with path names where parts of the path come > >from ordinary windows users? > > Either tell your Windows users to use forward slashes, tell them to > specify the path name using windows specs like f:\cygwin\foo\bar, > or change the backslashes to slashes. Wouldn't cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() and its relatives be a more general solution? -- Ross Smith ...................... Pharos Systems, Auckland, New Zealand "It's never too soon to start planning, and, in fact, it's usually too late." -- Chad Orzel -- 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/