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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:07:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller AT exchange DOT microsoft DOT com>
Subject: Meaningful Windows locations and cygpath (Was Re: Is it possible to
 copy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp?)
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Hmm...  cygpath currently has options to print the windows Documents and
Settings directory (-H), as well as the Start Menu/Programs directory
(-P).  Should we add more options for the other meaningful Windows
directories (such as My Documents, for example)?  What other special names
should we be aware of?  Would anyone know which API calls return these?
	Igor
P.S. As an aside, I've just discovered that the -A flag is ignored or
non-functional on Win98...  I'll look into that.

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Stephan Mueller wrote:

> To add new wrinkles after the final one, "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" is
> still somewhat presumptuous.  That certainly looks like the default
> location, but in Windows XP (what I just checked on) the user is allowed
> to change the location of My Documents through the UI.  On my machine,
> it's (Windows syntax) D:\Doc, even though %USERPROFILE% still references
> C:\Documents and Settings\smueller.
>
> stephan();
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Dwiggins [mailto:dond AT advancedmp DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:14 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents
> with bash cp?
>
>
> Randall R Schulz writes:
> > You should be able to see the contents of your "My Documents"
> > directory with this command:
>
> > % ls -l "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
>
> > Likewise, you can move or copy files to that directory like this:
>
> > % cp SomeFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
> > % mv OtherFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
>
> As a final wrinkle, if you're going to do this a lot, you might want to
> do something like "mount -u "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" /mydocs"; then
> you can say things like "mv furniture /mydocs".

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