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From: Lee <ler762 AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:15:47 -0500
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Subject: Re: Unexpected behavior from cygpath command
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On 11/13/19, Alfred von Campe wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2019, at 2:08, Frank Redeker wrote:
>
>> I think on both systems the handling of 8.3 names is configured
>> differently. You can check this with the Window command fsutil. (This
>> command requires elevated permissions)
>>
>> I get the following output on my system.
>>
>> C:\WINDOWS\system32>fsutil 8dot3name query d:
>> The volume state is: 0 (8dot3 name creation is enabled).
>> The registry state is: 2 (Per volume setting - the default).
>
> Thanks, I think this is very interesting, I did not know that such a setting
> existed.  It was indeed disabled for my E: drive.  However, after enabling
> it I still can’t get “cygpath -d" to work as expected.

Do the 8.3 names exist?
  dir E:\ /n /x

..wondering if you have to recreate the file names to get “cygpath -d" to work

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