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From: Dwight Schauer <das AT teegra DOT net>
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Subject: Re: getting dos path from cygwin
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:41:57 -0500
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Use cygpath.

cygpath --help

in your case:

some_dos_command  $(cygpath -w path_to_cygwin_file)
or
some_dos_command  $(cygpath -wa path_to_cygwin_file)
 
The "a" option is to return the absolute path, and not the relative one.

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 07:25, you wrote:
> Greetings,
> I am trying to call link.exe on a lib, but it is in my cygwin path and i
> cannot seem to find a good way to translate my cygwin path into a dos path
> so ms's silly tools can understand it.
>
> any hints?
>
> thanks
> -ian reinhart geiser
> --
> Ian Geiser <geiseri AT yahoo DOT com>
> http://geiseri.myip.org:8080/~geiseri/

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