From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com (Mikey)
Subject: Re: Fw: bash and ~
27 Feb 1998 23:38:29 -0800
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Lets not start this war again PLEASE!!!!

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:34:07 -0800, you wrote:

>I sent this a few days ago, but it hasn't shown up in my inbox, so I think
>it may have gotten lost in the recent Cygnus power failure. My apologies to
>anyone who is receiving it for a second time.
>
>Craig
>
>Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
>>The real fix is to have emacs understand "/users/pierre"
>
>ot really, because this is more generally a problem of interfacing cygwin
>to non-cygwin applications. It seems sort of silly to me to suggest that all
>other apps should understand cygwin's insistence on pretending that Win32 is
>Unix.
>
>Another approach to this problem might be to have cygwin translate the
>environment for all child processes to use native paths (e.g., translate
>/users/pierre to c:\users\pierre or whatever it's mounted as), and have
>cygwin programs perform the reverse translation during their C library
>initialization (before main() gets called). Thus, any non-cygwin app will
>see what it expects (Win32 drive letters and paths), and any cygwin app will
>also see what it expects (Unix-style paths based on cygwin's mount points),
>whether launched from bash or a non-cygwin shell. Since the environment is
>fairly small and modern machines are fairly fast, this should not add
>significant performance overhead.
>
>Craig
>
>
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