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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:24:37 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, Christopher Faylor!

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 07:51:05AM -0500, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>>cygpath -w seems to be inconsistent with /dev/* things:
>>
>>$ uname -svr
>>CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.14s(0.260/5/3) 20120406 19:41:34
>>$ cygpath -w /dev/clip
>>C:\cygwin\dev\clip
>>$ cygpath -w /dev/random
>>/dev/random
>>$
>>
>>I first thought it was because C:\cygwin\dev\random
>>does not exist, but then:
>>
>>$ cygpath -w /dev/xyz
>>C:\cygwin\dev\xyz
>>$

> /dev/random has special meaning to Cygwin.  There is no windows
> equivalent to it so translating it to a Windows path wouldn't
> make any sense.  You couldn't use it in a Windows program.

> /dev/xyz has no meaning so Cygwin just translates it to a MS-DOS
> path.

Could it at least translate /dev/clipboard to CLIP: ?
Not very useful in general, but I can use it.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 19.04.2012, <15:23>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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