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On Mar  5 09:08, Edward Lam wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> >According to Edward Lam on 1/21/2010 7:12 AM:
> >>DOS file paths and dash seems to NOT support them
> >
> >Huh?  Give an example.  dash supports DOS paths the same as bash.  That
> >is, if the : doesn't already cause other problems (as in tar), then the
> >DOS path is handed on to native windows (and you get the nodosfiles
> >warning from cygwin1.dll on the first use).
> 
> Sorry for the slow reply on this one as I had just given up and gone
> from sh to bash. Here's a reproducible case (starting with bash as
> the initial shell).
> 
> $ cygcheck -c cygwin dash bash
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version        Status
> bash                 3.2.49-23      OK
> cygwin               1.7.1-1        OK
> dash                 0.5.5.1-2      OK
> $ echo $CYGWIN
> nodosfilewarning
> $ bash
> $ cd c:/
> $ pwd
> /c
> $ export FOO=c:/windows
> $ cd $FOO
> $ pwd
> /c/windows
> $ cd c:/
> $ pwd
> /c
> $ dash
> $ export FOO=c:/windows
> $ cd $FOO
> cd: 2: can't cd to c:/windows
> $ exit
> 
> We rely on being able to perform "cd $FOO" where FOO is a DOS file
> path and this used to work in the old ash.

Is that a case-sensitivity issue, perhaps?  See
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive


Corinna

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