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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:43:41 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: 'cygpath -ml <posix_8.3_path>' bug?
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At 18:27 2003-03-19, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 06:25:14PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >At 17:59 2003-03-19, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:42:07PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >>>Lee,
> >>>
> >>>Perhaps. In particular, if one uses Windows mode (instead of mixed
> >>>mode) you get the result I think you were expecting (except, of course,
> >>>for the orientation of the name separators).
> >>
> >>Well, since POSIX doesn't have anything like "long file names" I think
> >>you could say this isn't really a bug.  The -l is a no-op in this case.
> >>
> >>Or one could always submit a patch...
> >>
> >>cgf
> >
> >
> >Chris,
> >
> >The ostensibly failing mode is conversion _to_ a Windows format, not to
> >POSIX format.
>
>I know.  The POSIX filename /cygdrive/c/docume~1 *is* exactly what you
>see.  It doesn't have a "long equivalent".
>
>cgf


Chris

This still doesn't make sense to me. Why does "-l" give a full Windows 
name while "-m" gives a DOS name?

It seems that either "-l" is doing something it shouldn't or "-m" is 
failing to do something it should.

Randall Schulz 


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