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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 20:44:21 -0230 (NDT)
From: Neil Zanella <nzanella AT cs DOT mun DOT ca>
To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: Spaces in home directory
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Hello,

I have a question related to spaces in paths. As has already been pointed
out it is best to use a user name containing no spaces when using cygwin.
Howver please not that at least in Win2K all users are created under
C:\Documents and Settings (for example user User's home directory would
be C:\Documents and Settings\User). Will the two spaces in the path cause
trouble and if so is there a way around this?

Thanks,

Neil


On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:

> These will all be in 1.1.5.  I've probably missed a few.
> 
> - True UNIX style argument list passing to cygwin subprocesses.  No more strange
>   quoting of the command line to preserver white space, etc.
> 
> - True UNIX passing of environment variables to cygwin subprocesses.  No more
>   conversion back and forth between Windows and UNIX formats.
> 
> - Improved (?) parameter passing, quoting, and parsing for non-cygwin processes.


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