X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F7BC83C.60406@etr-usa.com> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:04:12 -0600 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: Re: Windows7 broke DRIVELETTER:/path on cmdline of non-cygwin exe References: <20120403055503.GA6387@raf.org> <4F7AD7F3.4030208@cs.umass.edu> <20120404003419.GA16890@raf.org> <4F7B9F99.4030508@cs.umass.edu> In-Reply-To: <4F7B9F99.4030508@cs.umass.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 4/3/2012 7:10 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > > Except you wrote F:/blah which is *not* a Windows > path. F:\blah is ... Actually, forward slashes are legal path separators in Windows, and have been going back to the earliest days of MS-DOS: http://goo.gl/rm1EJ This is why you can't create a file or folder in Windows containing a forward slash to this day. The compatibility behavior documented in that blog post requires that Microsoft reserve this character as "special" as long as the behavior exists. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple