X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 22:42:29 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll incluson in Cygwin makefile Message-ID: <20080527024229.GA31544@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <483A64DE.3020607@cs.cmu.edu> <483A85DF.1510038B@dessent.net> <483B7138.2070100@cs.cmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <483B7138.2070100@cs.cmu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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 Mon, May 26, 2008 at 07:26:00PM -0700, Paul Newell wrote: >cmd /c dir "c:\" > >just generates a shell that I have to controlC out of (other variants >caused me to find you 2004 posting when I had to hit enter a second >time). It's not a shell. It's a continuation line. \ is a quoting character on linux-like systems. So the above says "quote the next character", meaning that the " character is not recognized as closing the previous ". If you had typed another " you would have seen output from your dir but if you really need to use a backslash then use \\. But, I think you're still missing the point that the main focus of Cygwin is to be a POSIX like environment. You shouldn't need to revert to cmd for anything. If you need to reference other drives then you can use /cygdrive/c/foo rather than c:\foo . >As for distributing my code ... that isn't the intent at all. This is >nothing more than trying to learn for myself how to make better use of >cygwin for personal uses. I've been using cygwin since the Win98se >days but always in a very limited form and always running a Borland >compiler on the Win98 machine. I'm trying to teach myself what I need >to know to just run cygwin on Windows and Fedora / RedHat on Linux ... >skipping Windows compilers altogether. If you are skipping Windows compilers then you definitely don't want to use the c: or \ notation. Stick to "forward slashes" and no colons when using cygwin programs. cgf -- 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/