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: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:02:06 -0500 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <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> <20070525093931 DOT GA23379 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: <20070525093931.GA23379@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 24 10:49, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On May 23 18:58, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >>>> ...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...) > > Yes, these paths exist, but their existence doesn't make them any more > useful. Well, except they don't have spaces and therefore might be useful in situations where you need a path that you can't quote (someone mentioned once that e.g. autotools choke on paths with spaces). Anyway since you don't seem interested in my $0.02, they can just stay here... -- Matthew "Still the prettiest." -- Legolas (as quoted in The Very Secret Diaries by Cassandra Claire) http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/ -- 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/