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To: "John Pollock" <jpollock AT curl DOT com>, <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: new sh doesn't translate Unix-style paths for Perl?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:26:48 +0400
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>
> This would be OK if we could invoke perl directly and then use the script as
> an argument, and we can do this when the perl script is invoked with a
> DOS-style path:
>
> $ perl m:\make-version-info.pl
> make-version-info.pl: You must specify --filename
>
> but if you use a Unix style path, it doesn't work:
>
> $ perl /m/make-version-info.pl
> Can't open perl script "/m/make-version-info.pl": No such file or directory
>
> Thoughts?

How should Cygwin know (for arbitrary command) what argument is supposed to be
filename?

-andrej


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