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 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: File path expansion problem (DLL version 1.5.3-1 and earlier) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:09:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Schaible?= To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h8489j927949 Hi Martin, > Is this only a problem of my system, or also reproduceable on > other systems ? well, this is normal. myeditor knows nothing about posix paths, since it is no Cygwin application. For non-Cygwin apps you have to convert the path yourself: myeditor "`cygpath -w /etc/services`" and you should take care in case of a non-Cygwin editor, that it can handle unix text file format! Regards, Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/