X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive? Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:49:15 -0500 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <20070521142944 DOT GC6003 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <004301c79bb6$c8c70db0$2e08a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <20070521152515 DOT GD6003 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20070521164542 DOT GF6003 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20070523165335 DOT GQ6003 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20070524124202 DOT GU6003 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <20070524124202.GU6003@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 23 18:58, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> Lev Bishop wrote: >>> Also, why do you have it so that -s is not just a synonym for -d, and >>> why doesn't -l force -w? There seems to be no advantage to forcing the >>> user to specify an additional flag. >> ...as I previously noted, '-us' is a reasonable combination of flags, > > I don't think so. The -s and -l modifiers don't make any sense with -u. > There's no short or long unix path. Does 'cd /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1' not work on your system? It does here, therefore there are indeed "short unix paths" and "long unix paths". (I also stated this previously...) -- Matthew "Nobody expects the traditional Bourne shell!" -- 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/