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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 16:13:12 +0100 (BST)
From: "A.R. Thornton" <art27 AT hermes DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk>
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To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: cygpath returns a /r not /n
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hi!
   I'm not sure if this a bug as such, just a mild irritation.
When trying to pass gvim and other win32 programs unix pathnames I
realised that they had to be converted into win32 names. So I wrote
several little scripts, one called realpath and (for this example) gvim.

gvims script went along the lines of:
#!/bin/sh
gvim -u c:/vim/_vimrc "`realpath "$@"`"

and realpath goes along the lines:
#!/bin/sh
for i in "$@"; do
	case $i in
	-*) echo -n "$i$" ;; # - originally didn't have -n, so did do a /n
	*)  cygpath -wa "i$" ;;
	esac
	echo -e '\n\c' #-this line had to be added to make gvim work
done

Before I added the echo '\n\c' when I tried to run gvim with more than one
file gvim wouldn't read it as two separate filenames but as one list with
^@ between the two files, (is this \r ?)

am I right in thinking that cygpath is to blame?
(I did a source dive but couldn't find anything explicit in cygpath.cc)

if cygpath is meant to return /r but not /n, why?

--
Alright. Own up. Who swallowed it this time?

art27 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk - Assistant Technical Director - Queens' Bats


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