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: <3A2D6233.3010207@Wanadoo.fr> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 22:46:27 +0100 From: Jerome Benoit Reply-To: JGMBenoit AT Wanadoo DOT fr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-GB; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, olaf AT infovore DOT xs4all DOT nl Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Web2C: CYGWIN is not DOSISH] References: <3A2D5CCF DOT 9030004 AT Wanadoo DOT fr> <20001205163125 DOT A15647 AT redhat DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:23:27PM +0100, Jerome Benoit wrote: > >>> I have done some fix in view to build web2c-7.3.3 under cygwn-1.1: >>> the main idea is that CYGWIN is _NOT_ DOSISH >> >> Is CYGWIN supposed to understand DOS-style pathnames (e.g, C:\dir)? >> If so, then it definetely is DOSISH. If not, then the DOSISH support >> can be safely removed. >> >> -- >> Olaf Weber > > > Gawd, how could anyone *possibly* know the answer to that question? I > mean, how could you figure out anything that complex??? > > You'd actually have to try it or something. I have tried it: for Web2C CYGWIN is not DOSISH (it does not work if one assume this) But it seems that `ls C:\\WINDOWS' works ! So accordingly `ls' is DOSIH hence the trouble. > > Brrr... Scary... > > cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com