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Re: Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:46:12PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:38:58PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> the symlink could contain something representing
> >>
> >> ${cygdriveprefix}/d/foo
> >
> >FWIW, I like this idea. Either that, or have a hard-coded cygdrive prefix
> >that's *always* recognized, in addition to the user-changeable one
> >(although I'd prefer changing the symlinks instead).
>
> How do you deal with the fact that '$', '{', and '}' are allowable filename
> characters now?
The ${cygdriveprefix} in my above example just stand for "something",
representing the cygdrive prefix. What exactly that is was still open
for discussion.
Corinna
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