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According to Edward Lam on 7/1/2009 8:52 PM:
> On Wed, July 1, 2009 22:17, Eric Blake wrote:
>> It also removes special
>> handling for DOS paths, since cygwin 1.7 is less accommodating to those
>> (use /cygdrive instead).
> 
> Can you clarify what this means exactly compared to say the latest bash
> version in cigwin 1.5? Personally, I rely on using DOS paths from the bash
> command line everyday. eg. "cd $FOO" where FOO is some environment
> variable containing a forward slash DOS path.

If you have /cygdrive/c mounted as a text mount point, then

echo > /cygdrive/c/file

continues to do text processing, but the alternate construct

echo > c:\file

now behaves in a binary fashion (in 1.5, I had been special casing DOS
paths to make them obey the underlying mount point, but cygwin 1.7 goes
further to discourage DOS paths, so I'm no longer worried about
maintaining that special-case).

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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