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Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:34:47 +0100
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To: jeremy AT sourcegear DOT com
Subject: Re: cygdrive, pwd, and windows apps
From: jlarmour AT redhat DOT co DOT uk (Jonathan Larmour)
Newsgroups: cygnus.gnu-win32
In-Reply-To: <392553C7.66AE6190@sourcegear.com>
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In article <392553C7 DOT 66AE6190 AT sourcegear DOT com> you write:
>I have a problem in that if i try:
>
>notepad /cygdrive/c/sometextfile.txt
>
>notepad (being a windows app) has no idea how to find /cygdrive.  So how
>do I easily get the dos-style path?

notepad `cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/sometextfile.txt` should do it.

Jifl
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