DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 63189385DC1B
Subject: Re: Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
References: <CACac1F9BvE0nqGru8=NxA7pc=6VPF_sokUPS94Wr1NfRQeLN5w@mail.gmail.com>
 <fea3d3d3-3ba0-7b8c-8c5c-c2793a397762@gmail.com>
 <CACac1F8jd0BJrg3kuw-sWkffc9Hn56ZRLgfpFE_CE1p6FL+kvw@mail.gmail.com>
 <08f1afcc-e045-25c5-6b7d-c37ee841b6c2@gmail.com>
 <CACac1F_ptn5Td_x5K2-8m5mqbiRN30NjJkrQWqPFiuQmx6FCnw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <707d4053-71ab-7368-9b4d-8df25408dde9@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:30:29 -0500
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19)
 Gecko/20081209 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <CACac1F_ptn5Td_x5K2-8m5mqbiRN30NjJkrQWqPFiuQmx6FCnw@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Language: en-US
Precedence: list
From: =?utf-8?q?Ren=C3=A9_Berber_via_Cygwin?= <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Reply-To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=c3=a9_Berber?= <rene.berber@gmail.com>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"
Errors-To: cygwin-bounces@cygwin.com
Sender: "Cygwin" <cygwin-bounces@cygwin.com>

On 4/15/2020 1:10 PM, Paul Moore via Cygwin wrote:

[snip]
> Thanks. Can you explain what the \?? prefix on the Installations
> values is about? I'm nervous that there's something going on there
> that means that just ignoring the first 3 characters isn't
> sufficient... ;-)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-path-formats

Look for "DOS device paths"
-- 
R.B.
--
Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                  https://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:        https://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:     https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple