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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:33:17 -0700
From: Vladimir Vysotsky <trivee AT trivee DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Possible bug in text/binary mode handling in cygwin1.dll version1.5
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Jeff wrote:
> Vlad wrote:
>>In other words, text mode is ignored if Windows-style path is
>>specified.
> I noticed this same behavior and posted on it a bit earlier this month. 

Jeff, I've noticed your email after I've posted mine :) I believe it's
the same problem.

> $ command -option `cygpath c:\whereever\whatever`

This is a great suggestion. The toolkit I'm dealing with uses an
environment variable TOOLKIT_ROOT, which used to be specified
Windows-style. Converting it to unix path seems to fix the compilation
problem.

I still wish cygwin1.dll would take care of this automatically.

Thanks,
Vlad


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