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From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
To: "Timothy Canham" <Timothy DOT Canham AT jpl DOT nasa DOT gov>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <3C7FF4B8 DOT 4DA55 AT jpl DOT nasa DOT gov>
Subject: Re: Perl reports different cwd() value
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:18:00 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy Canham" <Timothy DOT Canham AT jpl DOT nasa DOT gov>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 13:38
Subject: Perl reports different cwd() value


> If you are in:
>
> c:/temp (alternate way to address drives under cygwin)
>
> and you perform "perl -e "use Cwd; cwd();" " you get:
>
> /cygdrive/c/temp.
>
> Any way to work around this?
>
> Version 1.3.9

That _is_ the POSIX path for c:/temp unless you've created a mount point for
c:/ or c:/temp/.  If you want c:/temp, you'd need to use a non-Cygwin build
of Perl; in which case this would be off topic..
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