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Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> Ok, I'm aware of cygpath, but the question was how can I actually fix
> the problem.  See, I want to use it as a shell script interpreter on
> Windows, and if I throw cygpath calls all over my shell scripts, then
> they won't run on UNIX anymore.
> 
> I've been poking at the ash and pdksh code to see if I can figure out
> at what point this broken behaviour gets introduced, but so far no
> luck with finding it or with compiling either of them.

  The problem is that you are trying to use a hammer as a screwdriver.

  It cannot be fixed by fixing the hammer, which is not broken.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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