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From: "Terry Lincoln" <lincoln2 AT rochester DOT rr DOT com>
To: "Mortimer, Andy" <andy DOT mortimer AT aeat DOT co DOT uk>,
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Subject: Re: Make and javac compliler problem in bash
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 07:00:31 -0400
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mortimer, Andy" <andy DOT mortimer AT aeat DOT co DOT uk>
To: "Cygwin List" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 4:03 AM
Subject: RE: Make and javac compliler problem in bash


> Hi all,
>
> Carl Thompson wrote:
> > Woody Jin wrote:
> >
> > > ...
> >
> > > But a better way would be to resolve it within Cygwin.  By default,
> > > any application that is not in cygwin may be considered as Windows
> > > native application (WNA). So, when you launch WNAs, cygwin
> > can convert
> > > the unix style directory to DOS style.  After the
> > conversion, pass the
> > > converted MS-DOS style path to the WNA. I don't know why you think
> > > that this is so impossible or so difficult.  It is just  putting the
> > > gvim's functionality into Cygwin.
> >
> > I like this idea, but I think this functionality would more
> > properly go into
> > the BASH patches for Cygwin than in the Cygwin DLL itself.
> > [...]
>
> Before taking this much further, please consider the essential difference
between
>   bash$ cmd /c dir
> and
>   bash$ cmd 'c:\' dir
>
> ;-)
That, and any other set of normal DOS (Windows) switches preceded by '/'.
These are
definitely not going to be easily discernible from cygwin-style paths by
anything
less than a full parametric template of all possible switch combinations for
every
DOS command.  This gets worse when things like START are used as they accept
commands
with arguments as there arguments... ad nauseum.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy

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