X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 10:00:37 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows7 broke DRIVELETTER:/path on cmdline of non-cygwin exe Message-ID: <20120404080037.GX8014@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20120403055503.GA6387@raf.org> <4F7AD7F3.4030208@cs.umass.edu> <20120404003419.GA16890@raf.org> <4F7B9F99.4030508@cs.umass.edu> <20120404034204.GA18871@raf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120404034204.GA18871@raf.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 Apr 4 13:42, raf wrote: > Eliot Moss wrote: > > > On 4/3/2012 8:34 PM, raf wrote: > > >Eliot Moss wrote: > > > > > >>My suggestion would be to read up on the cygpath utility > > >>program and use it to convert cygwin paths to ones suitable > > >>for a non-cygwin program, etc. I launch non-cygwin programs > > >>all the time on Windows 7 that way ... > > >> > > >>Regards -- Eliot Moss > > > > > >Hi, > > > > > >Thanks but I'm using a non-cygwin path already. > > >I am not using a cygwin path that needs to be > > >converted to anything. > > > > Except you wrote F:/blah which is *not* a Windows > > path. F:\blah is ... > > Never mind. The problem has nothing to do with the command > line arguments or path flavours. > > I think it has more to do with the change in terminal handling. > The password prompting is no longer working (even in mintty). > The lack of debug output was just buffering. The problem is that native Windows CLI applications usually don't work interactively with Cygwin's pseudo ttys as stdio descriptors. > The users can run the programme from cmd.exe so I'll set up > some .bat scripts for them instead of bash functions if I > can't easily get it working from within cygwin. You can use the still existing Cygwin.bat script from Cygwin's root directory to start a Cygwin bash in a Windows console window. The password prompting will still work there. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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