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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:30:48 +0200
From: Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: environment variables derived from TMPDIR
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* Eric Blake
| |     # call program: error: no such file /cygdrive/c/temp/foo.1234
| |     # filename should be c:/temp/foo.1234
| |     external_program "$TMPFILE"
| 
| Does it work to pass the contents of the file on stdin instead of
| the file name as an argument?
| 
| external_program < "$TMPFILE"

Duh.  This should work in 95% of the cases.  In the other cases file
size of TMPFILE is involved, so redirection would not work as-is.

Have to check whether that rest is really 5%, and whether
conditionally calling cygpath is ok there.

| Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Thanks for pointing out ;-) I must admit that after one week of trying
several SHELL environments on Windows and running into problems on
each my visual field is very narrow by now.

R'

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