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RE: Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?
- From: Jörg Schaible <Joerg dot Schaible at Elsag-Solutions dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:45:05 +0200
- Subject: RE: Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?
Hughes, Bill wrote on Friday, October 17, 2003 3:32 PM:
>> I shall now fix my path and create symlinks so 'ping' works.
>
> I corrected the case of the directory names in the windows
> environment variable and Cygwin now finds PING.EXE, just a
> note for the record. I know PTC etc, but would changing the
> (presumably cygpath) translation of the windows path to
> adjust case to the correct value add too much overhead?
It is, because Windows does return wrong case itself from its functions. I implemented in cygpath at least for the -S option, that the path is with correct case. To ensure case you would have to look up every single element in the path name by requesting the entry in the corresponding directory ... really too much overhead.
Regards,
Jörg
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