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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:25:43 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com, Joshua Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygwin-apps Digest 15 Jan 2002 17:47:13 -0000 Issue 300
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	Joshua Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:18:25AM -0800, Joshua Franklin wrote:
> > Thanks for the patch.  I applied it to my local
> > sandbox but I
> > was somewhat surprised about the behaviour since
> > 
> >   cygpath -D -A
> > 
> > has another result as
> > 
> >   cygpath -A -D
> > 
> > which is not what a user expects.  The options
> > should be scanned
> > and after the scanning they should be evaluated
> > (right after the
> > switch statement).  Would you mind to change your
> > patch accordingly?
> > 
> > Corinna
> > 
> Yeah, I figured that since the (unpatched) cygpath's
> current behaviour requires switches to precede other
> options that this was expected:
> 
> $ cygpath -Ww
> /c/WINNT
> 
> $ cygpath -wW 
> C:\WINNT
> 
> Should I try and change that, too?

That would be very nice!

Corinna

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