Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <002001c03249$545a2850$1419a8c0@home.erdelynet.com> From: "Erdely, Michael" To: References: Subject: Re: Spaces in home directory Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:33:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 X-Server: VPOP3 V1.4.1 - Registered You could mount C:\Documents and Settings to /home mount c:/documents\ and\ settings/ /home -ME ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Zanella" To: Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 7:14 PM Subject: Spaces in home directory > > 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. > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com