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Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 13:39:32 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Possible error in cygpath
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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:44:51AM +0200, Schaible, Jorg wrote:
> The reason why I just implemented -s (in 1999) was that GetLongPathName is
> not available for Win95. If we have to be Win95-compatible still, you will
> have to load the function yourself directly form the DLL and use
> FindFirstFile (as mensioned in the MSDN docs for *GetShortPathName*) for
> every part of the path if the function is not available.

Are you interested in implementing that functionality anyway?  Just
FYI, it's available since W2K only.  Even on NT4 you'd have to 
go the hard way...

> you've seen my own patch for cygpath.cc in cygwin-apps ? Chris already
> answered positivly and RH should have the assignment from late 1999 still.
> My diff was against the sources from 14.5...

I saw it but it doesn't contain a patch for the above problem.
It's applied, btw.

Corinna

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