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 Message-ID: <3EC4112A.4050609@mscha.org> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 00:14:02 +0200 From: Michael Schaap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030506 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygpath : minor inconsistency in output References: <000701c31b1e$fd6aa760$c99ac250 AT leper> In-Reply-To: <000701c31b1e$fd6aa760$c99ac250@leper> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter 0.1 @ mscha.org (http://www.amavis.org/) fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net wrote: >(But it still seems not quite right to me: maybe I'm misunderstanding the >question that cygpath actually poses, which is why these different responses >to it seem, to me, to be inconsistent. Hence my earlier suggestion that >"c:/Cygwin/" and "d:/" would be consistent with one another and seem to me >to be responses to the identical class of question. As things stand, it's >giving me grief.) > I'm sure this won't lighten your grief, but this _is_ in fact consistent with UNIX-like behaviour: $ cd $ pwd /home/mscha $ cd / $ pwd / so, changing it might cause even more grief. (I'm sure a P to add an option to always include a trailing slash - -s, -l, -a are taken, so perhaps -h, --slash? - would be TC. ;-) ) – Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/