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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:37:26 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygpath doubles backslashes
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:23:11PM +0000, Don Sharp wrote:
>when /usr/bin is converted by "cygpath -w -p" it doubles the number of
>backslashes produced
>
>$ cygpath -w -p /usr/bin:/bin
>G:\\bin;G:\bin
>
>Not sure if this is a desirable side-effect.
>
>$ mount
>G:\\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
>G:\\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
>c:\tmp on /tmp type system (binmode)
>
>All software latest available yesterday

Did you look at the above mount table?  You're using two backslashes in
your mount and cygpath is dutifully using what you've told it to use.

cgf

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