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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040715221848.033c3b40@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:21:43 -0400 To: Thorsten Haude , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications In-Reply-To: <20040715233034.GA3729@eumel.yoo.local> References: <20040715033232 DOT GP25893 AT eumel DOT yoo DOT local> <20040715233034 DOT GA3729 AT eumel DOT yoo DOT local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:30 PM 7/15/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > >* Shankar Unni wrote (2004-07-16 00:52): >>Thorsten Haude wrote: >>>- Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up >>>before in other applications? >> >>I don't know why you are even trying to normalize the paths like this. >>Just hand the thing off to the OS. Usually, both the user and the OS >>know what it is they are trying to do. > >The path is also displayed at various places. The user might be >surprised to see surplus slashes. Better that they be surprised and have things work than be surprised and complain when things don't work. Don't shield them from the reality of the real world. It's a learning experience and depriving them of that won't help anyone. That ends the philosophy lesson for today. Please go back to your homes now and meditate on this. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/