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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:50:28 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Tcl pathname isssues [Re: Results for 2.97 20010115 (experimental) testsuite on i686-pc  -cygwin]
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In-Reply-To: <3A6E4156.510036E6@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:43:34PM -0500

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:43:34PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Mumit Khan wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>
>> > The unix version of Tcl build with Cygwin and configured with `gcc -mno-win32'.
>> > As a side effect, Tcl understands Cygwin paths.
>>
>> Thanks Earnie for reminding me of this! I'll have to try it out and see
>> what happens.
>>
>> The current Cygwin Tcl port's trouble with Cygwin paths/mounts is quite
>> fixable IMO, and it may be a matter of doing the path/name translation
>> in a different place than is done right now. I remember trying to fix
>> this a *long* time ago, but ran into a Cygwin bug in resolving relative
>> symlink; I belive cgf fixed when he bacame an active contributor (like
>> I said, it was a long time ago), but I never moved it off the back
>> burner.
>>
>> My memory is rather shoddy on what exactly the potential fix was and
>> wheter it actually fixed the problem or not, but we'll cross that
>> bridge later.
>
>A few things have changed in the path recognition since you've been gone so even if
>you remember exactly what it is, it is likely not to work the same.  If a path
>contains a : in column 2 or contains a \ character it is now determined to be an
>absolute windows path.  Chris, is this the correct wording for this feature?

Yep.

cgf

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