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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:06:11 +0000 (UTC)
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Dave Korn <dave.korn <at> artimi.com> writes:

>   But cygwin apps understand *nix style paths natively!  ...

Right - My problem comes when I want to run a windows app from the cygwin shell.
For example:
gvim.exe /c/src/myfile.cs

Why would I want to do this:
1.  The Cygwin shell in general has all sorts of goodies that cmd doesn't have.
I have a cygwin shell open 24/7.  'Nuff said.
2.  There are, however, still windows applications that I may want to run from
the command line.  (i.e. Visual Studio or some other native windows app.)  
3.  When typing the *nix path, I get the tab auto-completion.

However they did it, the MSYS devs made it so that I can type a cygwin path, and
yet a windows path gets sent as the argument to the windows executable.  

I posted on the MSYS list and they suggested I ask here.  Maybe I should clarify 
my intent.  

Anyway, thanks for your help!




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