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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:40:51 +0900 (JST)
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From: Yasushi Higuchi <yzone AT mail DOT raidway DOT ne DOT jp>
To: "Armin Samide" <samide AT sbox DOT tugraz DOT at>
Subject: Re: Backslashes on japanese Windows NT
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:21:10 +0100
"Armin Samide" <samide AT sbox DOT tugraz DOT at> wrote:

>I have a problem with a japanese NT4 System.
>Backslashes on this machine are display as something that looks like a Y
>with two straight lines going horizontally through tthe Y.
>So, if I now try to use for example cygpath the trouble begins, because
>cygpath cannot interpret this symbol.
>
>Has anybody experienced similar thing and has a solution for this behaviour
>?

'\' is equivalent to backslash in Japanese Windows.
And, there is even a escape character of shell in '\\'.
Therefore, you must write '\\'.

example)
$ cd /
$ pwd
/
$ cygpath -w /
c:\ap\cygwin
$ cygpath -u c:\\ap\\cygwin
/
$

-- 
Yasushi Higuchi


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