From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor)
Subject: Re: pathname conversion
25 Sep 1997 11:16:10 -0700
Message-ID: <EH2LHy.2ME.cygnus.gnu-win32@bbc.com>
References: <01BCC99A DOT B46B51D0 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>
Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In article <01BCC99A DOT B46B51D0 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>,
Sergey Okhapkin  <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru> wrote:
>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
[snip]

I think that the main complaint is that this won't work under bash.
And, something like:

	write /etc/passwd

won't work either.
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