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From: Paul  Stodghill <stodghil AT cs DOT cornell DOT edu>
To: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: Obtaining short DOS file names?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:37:41 -0400
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Chris wrote,
> There is no cygwin-specific way of getting the short file 
> name.  The concept
> has no meaning on UNIX.  There are Windows programs available 
> which do this.
> 'dir' is one of them, for instance.

Gotcha. I can hack something up from this.

> Is there some reason why quoting the filename doesn't work?

It would, but it will take me a while to track down all of the places that
the scripts are broken. I'm looking for something quick and dirty to get
going.

Thanks.

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