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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: zzapper Subject: Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:50:41 +0100 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:46:04 +0100, wrote: >Hi > >$ cygpath -d c:/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer >c:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1 > >I've just had another case where the I had to use the short form, is the short form the "real name"? Hi just solved my problem:- sjaprog='/cygdrive/c/Program Files/SQLyog Enterprise/sja.exe' sjascript="c:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/sql/jrayner.xml" "$sjaprog" "$sjascript" By using no backslashing at all, but surely that's what I would have tried in the first place? Drat Sorry for wasting your grey emininences -- zzapper Success for Techies and Vim,Zsh tips http://SuccessTheory.com/ -- 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/