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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:36:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tim McDaniel <tmcd AT panix DOT com>
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Subject: Normalized directory name
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I have access to a Windows 2003 system.  Cygwin is running
case-insensitive, so while the directory name is E:\CM\BuildUtil,
I can type
     cd /cm/buildutil
and get there (E:\CM is mounted on /cm).  And if I do that particular
cd, then pwd, /bin/pwd, and "echo $PWD" all say "/cm/buildutil".

For tidiness, if nothing else, I'd like to get the normalized form, in
much the same way how, in CMD, I can do
     E:\>cd cm\buildutil
and have the prompt become
     E:\CM\BuildUtil>
Emacs figures it out too.

I Googled for the answer a while back, and I think the answer was "no
way", but I was wondering whether the answer was correct, or whether
someone has come up with a program or script to do better.

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd AT panix DOT com

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