Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: "Joerg R. Schaible" Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Possible error in cygpath Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 19:32:24 +0200 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <1264BCF4F426D611B0B00050DA782A50014C21E8 AT mail DOT gft DOT com> <20020515133932 DOT L2671 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9eb874a.dip0.t-ipconnect.de X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021483696 7192 217.235.135.74 (15 May 2002 17:28:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 17:28:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Hi Corinna, "Corinna Vinschen" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:20020515133932 DOT L2671 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de... > 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? No, not me! I just want to remember Mark, that it is not done just by calling GetLongPathName. Mark, do you still want to implement this ? > Just > FYI, it's available since W2K only. Even on NT4 you'd have to > go the hard way... Right, I remember. Since I developed the GetShortPathName option for cygpath on NT4, I did not implement a counter part ... ;-) > > 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. OK. Fine. I was not sure if I have to send the patch again against the new sources with the applied patch of Mark. Regards, Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/