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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:28:25 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, Charles Wilson!

>> I don't know what the difference in your settings is, though.  Something
>> with readline, maybe.
>
> Despite the APPEARANCE (*) of invoking cygpath from within a cygwin
> shell, it seems the OP is actually invoking cygpath directly from a
> regular cmd.exe console:
>
> On my machine, from cmd.exe:
>
> C:\cygwin\bin>cygpath -u \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile
> //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile
>
> On my machine, from bash.exe:
>
> $ cygpath -u \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile
> /c/DAEMON1anrdaemon.profile
>
>
> (*) [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -u \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     oh, look, a unix-style command prompt, aka $PS1...

 Eh, yep >.> The default Windows/DOS ">" prompt confusing me, it had a
completely different meaning back in the days, so I always change it to reduce
my nerve stress.


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WBR,
 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 23.06.2011, <22:25>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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