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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: pwd option to return windows path
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:50:20 -0700
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Edward Peschko wrote:

> yeah, I did a little more mucking around and came up with cygpath. Its 
> not the most obvious place to find that information though, nothing in 
> unix screams out 'cygpath is what you want!!!' 

Unix is a kind and polite OS. As such it does not scream at you! :-)

I've never found much In Unix screaming out any answers as a matter of 
fact. Most of the time you have to search for them.

> since there *are* no unix analogs. I think that the same options that 
> are on cygpath should also be on pwd; this might make things a little 
> more user friendly. 

But that would make pwd uncompatible.

BTW: Despite popular opinion Unix *is* a user friendly OS. It just needs 
to determine whether or not you are worthy of being *ITS* friend! :-)
-- 
Where there's a will... I want to be in it.



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