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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 02:38:48 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Mixing / and \ path separators
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:08:27PM +0100, Anton Ertl wrote:
>Cygwin 1.3.18(0.69/3/2) handles filenames like
>
>/usr/local/share/gforth/0.5.9-20030201\kernl32l.fi
>
>all right, where the "\" is meant as a path separator.  Cygwin
>1.3.19(0.71/3/2) and 1.3.20 reportedly do not like such names (file
>not found).  Is this intentional and will it stay that way?

Cygwin "likes" paths with backslashes in them.  It now just wisely
assumes that such paths are windows paths.  As I'm sure you know,
you don't use '/' to denote a UNIX path.

This is the way that it was supposed to work (for the last couple
of years at least) but a bug crept in which caused things to stop
functioning correctly.

>If so, how should I deal with path names where parts of the path come
>from ordinary windows users?

Either tell your Windows users to use forward slashes, tell them to
specify the path name using windows specs like f:\cygwin\foo\bar,
or change the backslashes to slashes.

cgf

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