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Re: Various questions - docs, paths
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Various questions - docs, paths
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:00:46 -0400
- Cc: John dot Cooper at eu dot citrix dot com
- References: <uvh13kiu3.fsf@KONTIKI.cam.eu.citrix.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 10:13:08AM +0100, John S Cooper wrote:
>o The FAQ and User's Guide seem to refer to B20 -- are there equivalent docs
> for the new 1.1.0, or does everything in the older docs still apply?
The FAQ should make this pretty clear. There is a disclaimer at the top
of the document.
>o What's the deal with these new "/cygdrive" path prefixes?
Check out the documentation that is referenced at the project web page:
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
It actually does document cygdrive. The user documentation should be relatively
up to date with the net release.
>o We have a Makefile that needs to pass the current directory to a (non-cygwin)
> program. If we use $PWD, we get the /cygdrive style path, which the program
> doesn't grok. Do I have use conditionally (our Makefile also runs on Linux)
> call cygpath to convert to Windows style paths in all places we invoke this
> program?
Yes.
>o Is there a way to tell cygwin to always use Windows style paths (with drive
> letters) rather than the "unix" paths that are only understood by other
> cygwin programs?
No.
>o I've seen people allude to a CYGWIN variable -- where is this documented?
In the documentation referenced above.
cgf
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