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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: com/sun/jini/example/launcher/StartService Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:42:06 -0800 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-64-165-207-59.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) In-Reply-To: George Hester wrote: > I thought I could use UNIX notation in Cygwin but I see I cannot. oops. Wrong again. Cygwin is not a tool that magically wanders over all your installed applications (e.g. Office) and somehow makes them "Unix-aware". Applications compiled against cygwin libraries can use POSIX conventions for files and paths (provided they are configured to do so - there's also software logic to be considered). Java, however, is a plain old native Windows program. It will understand forward-slashes (because that comes for free with the Windows API), but paths have to be ";"-separated, and of course, it won't understand Cygwin mount points (e.g. you can't pass in "/usr/some/path" to Java and have it figure out that you really meant "c:/cygwin/some/path"). -- 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/