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Subject: Re: difficult problem with symbolic link handling
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From: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Date: 30 Apr 2001 13:39:15 +0900
In-Reply-To: Christopher Faylor's message of Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:50:14 -0400
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>>> On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:50:14 -0400
>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> said:

> I'd still like to have someone pick some holes in my current way of
> doing things.  I've still got this feeling that I missed something
> important.

The `cygpath' utility returns results quite different from ones
in the previous way. Please see the following example.

The previous way
    $ pwd
    /
    $ cygpath -w usr/
    usr\
    $
The current way
    $ pwd
    /
    $ cygpath -w usr/
    C:\cygwin\usr

The current way translates into the full path, and eliminates
the trailing slash.

I guess it is difficult to preserve the previous behavior in the
current way. But some of my scripts depend the behavior. I would
be grateful if you would correct it.
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