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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:33:43 -0400
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From: somian AT adelphia DOT net (Soren Andersen)

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:33:34AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> However for many purposes it's feasible to write some simple-minded 
> heuristics that make the determination about when and how to apply 
> "cygpath." I currently use a BASH script that uses a simple "case" 
> statement to paper over the Cygwin / Windows interface for invoking the 
> Java 2 SDK tools. The case statement's glob patterns detect whether any 
> given argument is (probably) a file name or PATH-like entity and then 
> applies cygpath as necessary. It can be fooled, of course, but in 
> practice it works fine for me.

Gosh, you accomplish that with a mere bash script? I wrote an entire
class to handle that ;-).  Over-working myself as usual I expect!
Ten-dollar solutions to 5-cent problems, that's my motto!

   Soren A.

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