X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:16:05 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: FAQ ALERT Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1 Message-ID: <20061013231605.GA15750@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <014c01c6ed5b$d6a1e9a0$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <452D60EC DOT 8AA728B8 AT dessent DOT net> <20061011230028 DOT GA4545 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:43:45PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On 10/11/06, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Good point, Brian. If anything qualifies as a FAQ, this certainly does. >>Joshua, would you be willing to write something up about the philosophy >>of MS-DOS and Cygwin? Known gotchas would be a good thing to include, >>even if they were only examples. > >This looks like possibly just a generalized rewrite of >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.accessing-drives I don't see much there which talks about the fact that not every program will understand Windows paths correctly. I think I have to write up a Cygwin philosophy page, too at some point (with Corinna's input, of course), which tries to make clear that modifying linux programs to work better with Windowisms is not a primary goal of Cygwin. cgf -- 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/