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Re: [Fwd: Re: Web2C: CYGWIN is not DOSISH]
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, olaf at infovore dot xs4all dot nl
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Web2C: CYGWIN is not DOSISH]
- From: Jerome Benoit <JGMBenoit at Wanadoo dot fr>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 22:46:27 +0100
- References: <3A2D5CCF.9030004@Wanadoo.fr> <20001205163125.A15647@redhat.com>
- Reply-To: JGMBenoit at Wanadoo dot fr
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:23:27PM +0100, Jerome Benoit wrote:
>
>>> I have done some fix in view to build web2c-7.3.3 under cygwn-1.1:
>>> the main idea is that CYGWIN is _NOT_ DOSISH
>>
>> Is CYGWIN supposed to understand DOS-style pathnames (e.g, C:\dir)?
>> If so, then it definetely is DOSISH. If not, then the DOSISH support
>> can be safely removed.
>>
>> --
>> Olaf Weber
>
>
> Gawd, how could anyone *possibly* know the answer to that question? I
> mean, how could you figure out anything that complex???
>
> You'd actually have to try it or something.
I have tried it: for Web2C CYGWIN is not DOSISH (it does not work if one
assume this)
But it seems that `ls C:\\WINDOWS' works !
So accordingly `ls' is DOSIH
hence the trouble.
>
> Brrr... Scary...
>
> cgf
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