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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:57:51 -0500
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh
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In-Reply-To: <38D7F0A2.8C5F68F4@veritas.com>; from rmcgowan@veritas.com on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:58:58PM -0800

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:58:58PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
>When I used the //c/dir...  format to change to "Multimedia Files" and
>typed pwd, it printed out "/cygdrive/c/Multimedia Files" (expected) but
>"echo $PWD" printed "/c/Multimedia Files".  This is clearly not
>correct.

It is precisely because of problems like this that we switched to using
/cygdrive/x rather than //x.  Many UNIX utilities assume that they can
clean up multiple slashes.  That results in your "/c/Multimedia Files"
above.

That's why the //x form will be deprecated in the next release.

-Chris Faylor
-Cygwin Engineering Manager
-Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat Company

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