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 Subject: Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix References: <20050811034709.683941CC1D@lagavulin.gandi.net> From: "Patricia J. Hawkins" Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:59:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20050811034709.683941CC1D@lagavulin.gandi.net> (Gary R. Van Sickle's message of "Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:47:22 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Posting-Agent: Hamster/2.0.0.1 >>>>> "GRVS" == Gary R Van Sickle writes: Ken wrote: >> Thanks. One of these years I will eventually understand when >> quotes cause an item with embedded spaces to be a single item >> and when they get lost in processing, causing the embedded >> space item to be multiple items. GRVS> Well, when you do, be sure to publish a writeup in a prestegious journal so GRVS> the rest of us can finally solve the mystery. ;-) heh. Try O'Reilly's _Learning The Bash Shell_. Makes the arcane cane; straightened out my weird mish-mash of things known, unknown, remembered, half-remembered, those understood, and the items not understood but done by rote. Nice examples, nice explication of all those disparate weird but powerful features that were inherited from historic shells. -- Patricia J. Hawkins Hawkins Internet Applications www.hawkinsia.com -- 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/