From: anorland AT hem2 DOT passagen DOT se (Anders Norlander)
Subject: Re: Unix pathname -> DOS pathname
25 Sep 1998 03:37:13 -0700
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Tony Pires wrote:
> 
> You will need to write some code to get the mount points from the registry
> in order to perform the magic. Can you code?

There actually seems to be a much better way to accomplish
Unix -> dos path conversion.
According to the FAQ there are some intersting functions:
	cygwin32_conv_to_full_posix_path 
	cygwin32_conv_to_full_win32_path 
        cygwin32_conv_to_posix_path 
        cygwin32_conv_to_win32_path 
        cygwin32_posix_path_list_p 
        cygwin32_posix_to_win32_path_list 
        cygwin32_posix_to_win32_path_list_buf_size 
        cygwin32_split_path 
        cygwin32_win32_to_posix_path_list 
        cygwin32_win32_to_posix_path_list_buf_size 

I don't know the prototypes for these functions, but if
I call cygwin32_conv_to_win32_path with the unix path
as the first argument and a buffer to hold the converted
path as the second argument I get the win32 path.
By looking at the source it would be possible to get the
exact prototypes. The developers ought to know about this.

/Anders
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