cygdrive, pwd, and windows apps

[Jonathan Larmour]

In article < 392553C7.66AE6190@sourcegear.com > you write:
>I have a problem in that if i try:
>
>notepad /cygdrive/c/sometextfile.txt
>
>notepad (being a windows app) has no idea how to find /cygdrive.  So how
>do I easily get the dos-style path?

notepad `cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/sometextfile.txt` should do it.

Jifl
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