From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor)
Subject: Re: pathname conversion
26 Sep 1997 09:18:33 -0700
Message-ID: <EH4HMx.3yo.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 <342B3821 DOT 36B3 AT switch DOT rockwell DOT com>,
banders  <banders AT ECD DOT Rockwell DOT COM> wrote:
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>> 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
>
>Doesn't seem to be a problem with the cygwin stuff since this was
>written by some non gnuwin32 developer.  So you could patch write to
>use the path conversion utilities (everybody patches executables, don't
>they?).

Ok.  I've patched my version and it seems to work pretty well.

Here are the commands I used:

	bash
	cp /usr/local/bin/vim.exe /winnt35/system32/WRITE.EXE

Now I can edit files with WRITE using unix style filenames and commands!
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