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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:13:00 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygdev <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Interesting pipe feature.
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:59:01AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> > 
> > OK, sorry.  You're right.  Interestingly enough, I don't have trouble
> > running `echo $COMSPEC` directly on W2K, although your command sequence
> > above also works.  Do you have the same problem with `echo $COMSPEC` on
> > XP?
> > 
> 
> Yes, that's what I said.  Hmm... Nothing like consistancy.

`echo $COMSPEC | sed -e 's#\\\\#/#g#'`
                           ^^^^

works great on XPprof

Corinna

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