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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:43:57 -0400
To: Lapo Luchini <lapo AT lapo DOT it>, "Mailing List: CygWin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: [feature request] completion of paths with Windows drive
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At 11:25 AM 4/17/2002, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> > Repeat-By:
> >         "ls c:/win<TAB>" should expand to your Windows directory on cygwin.
>
>Maybe I'm completely wrong but I always tought "ls d:/" was just an hack and "real use" would suppose "ls /cygdrive/d/", as havnig colons can be acceptable maybe in "ls" but not in many other programs such as "scp"...


No, you're right.  Making bash support DOS-style paths is not the full 
solution.  Other specific utilities will still have problems, as you pointed 
out.  That's the reason POSIX variants of the the drive paths are 
automatically provided by Cygwin.

  

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