From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com (Mikey) Subject: Re: Fw: bash and ~ 27 Feb 1998 23:38:29 -0800 Message-ID: <34f9b96a.90137154.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp.netzone.com> References: <00cc01bd43d8$333a5620$168cdad0 AT crd DOT inversenet DOT com> Reply-To: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com 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 > > >- >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". ===================================================== Linux a platform built by, and for users, standing on the firm legs of reliability, and speed. Microsoft Windows, a platform without a leg to stand on. (jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com) delete REMOVETHIS from the above to reply Mikey - 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".