From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: pathname conversion 24 Sep 1997 23:37:11 -0700 Message-ID: <01BCC99A.B46B51D0.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> To: "'Fabrice.Popineau'" Cc: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" Fabrice.Popineau wrote: > Cygnus's goal was to allow Unix programs to run unmodified on NT. > But there is a need too for Gnu utilities to run under Win32, with > Win32 specifics. Emacs was ported and sources include Win32 and Unix I can't understand the discussion about pthnames at all... Gnu-win32 tools allows to use both unix and win32 name conventions: H:\>ls -l h:\site total 1110 -rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ Domain A 320512 Jul 05 00:00 bash.exe -rw-rw-rw- 1 Administ Domain A 427838 Sep 23 12:58 coolview.tar.gz -rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ Domain A 572950 Sep 23 12:50 cygwin.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ Domain U 13123 Sep 23 13:14 index.shtml -rw-rw-rw- 1 Administ Domain A 693370 Aug 19 14:38 libcygwin.a -rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ Domain A 3072 Jul 12 01:53 ps.exe -rw-rw-rw- 1 Administ Domain A 235612 Sep 17 09:43 remote.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 5 Administ Domain A 0 Aug 01 11:11 usr drwxr-xr-x 4 Administ Domain A 0 Aug 01 11:10 var H:\site>tar tvz --force-local -f H:\site\coolview.tar.gz -rwxrwxrwx Administrators/Domain Admins 320512 Jul 05 00:00 1997 bash.exe -rwxrwxrwx Administrators/Domain Admins 572950 Sep 23 12:50 1997 cygwin.dll -rw-rw-rw- Administrators/Domain Admins 693370 Aug 19 14:38 1997 libcygwin.a -rwxrwxrwx Administrators/Domain Admins 3072 Jul 12 01:53 1997 ps.exe H:\site>ls -l /site total 1110 -rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ Domain A 320512 Jul 05 00:00 bash.exe -rw-rw-rw- 1 Administ Domain A 427838 Sep 23 12:58 coolview.tar.gz -rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ Domain A 572950 Sep 23 12:50 cygwin.dll -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ Domain U 13123 Sep 23 13:14 index.shtml -rw-rw-rw- 1 Administ Domain A 693370 Aug 19 14:38 libcygwin.a -rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ Domain A 3072 Jul 12 01:53 ps.exe -rw-rw-rw- 1 Administ Domain A 235612 Sep 17 09:43 remote.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 5 Administ Domain A 0 Aug 01 11:11 usr drwxr-xr-x 4 Administ Domain A 0 Aug 01 11:10 var -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".