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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:38:03 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 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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On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:32:37PM -0700, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>The API you want to start with is probably SHGetFolderPath.  See
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc
>/platform/Shell/reference/functions/shgetfolderpath.asp
>
>It lists a number of CSIDL_* constants that you'd want to choose from,
>as well as linking to more complete lists.  It also mentions that for
>downlevel platforms, you may want SHGetSpecialFolderPath instead.
>
>This may turn out to be a fun one in terms of providing equivalent
>functionality in cygpath on all the Cygwin support platforms.

We're already using these functions in cygpath.

cgf

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