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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:39:12 -0800
To: Craig MacFarlane <craigm AT chemconnect DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT teknowledge DOT com>
Subject: Re: bash, javac and that pesky slash.
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Craig,

You must distinguish Cygwin programs from all others and use Windows 
native path name syntax for any program not compiled for Cygwin. For 
me, this most often manifests itself when I wish to launch Vim.

Randy Schulz
Teknowledge Corp.
Palo Alto, CA USA


At 09:31 -0800 1/24/00, Craig MacFarlane wrote:
>Sun's javac, in jdk1.2.1, seems to change the
>forward slashes used by bash to backward slashes
>used by windows.
>
>e.g.
>
>   bash-2.02% javac -d //d/destdir/classes foo.java
>
>produces the error message
>
>   The \\d\destdir\classes directory does not exist.
>
>Is there any way to use javac with bash
>while specifying destination dirs for your classes?
>It appears as though javac is trying to be too smart
>by substituting slashes.
>
>Thanks,
>Craig



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