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Subject: Re: Windows7 broke DRIVELETTER:/path on cmdline of non-cygwin exe
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:55 AM,  cygwin at raf.org wrote:
> On the Windows XP computer, this works. On the Windows 7
> computer, after entering the command line and pressing
> enter, nothing happens until we press Ctrl-C to terminate
> it. Adding debug output to the very start of the programme
> emits nothing. It's as though the programme itself hasn't
> started running yet at all.
>
> If I replace the "F:/import" with "/cygdrive/f/import" then
> the programme is able to execute (and emit debug output) but
> it then terminates when it is unable to locate a file
> relative to the given path (presumably because /cygdrive/f
> isn't a real directory to a non-cygwin programme).

See:
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Then check http://cygwin.com/snapshots to see if the most recent DLL
has the problem fixed.

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Earnie
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