X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 11:39:31 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive? Message-ID: <20070525093931.GA23379@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <004301c79bb6$c8c70db0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20070521152515.GD6003@calimero.vinschen.de> <20070521164542.GF6003@calimero.vinschen.de> <20070523165335.GQ6003@calimero.vinschen.de> <20070524124202.GU6003@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On May 24 10:49, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On May 23 18:58, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > >>Lev Bishop wrote: > >>>Also, why do you have it so that -s is not just a synonym for -d, and > >>>why doesn't -l force -w? There seems to be no advantage to forcing the > >>>user to specify an additional flag. > >>...as I previously noted, '-us' is a reasonable combination of flags, > > > >I don't think so. The -s and -l modifiers don't make any sense with -u. > >There's no short or long unix path. > > Does 'cd /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1' not work on your system? It does here, > therefore there are indeed "short unix paths" and "long unix paths". (I > also stated this previously...) Yes, these paths exist, but their existence doesn't make them any more useful. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/