When are Windows Short Path Names required

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 05:04:23PM +0100, zzapper wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:46:04 +0100, zzapper wrote:
> 
> >Hi
> >
> >$ cygpath -d c:/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer
> >c:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1
> >
> >I've just had another case where the I had to use the short form,
> >is the short form the "real name"?

No, it's an alternate name, and may not even exist, as Brian said.

> I think I've may be mislead you, I think my problem was more that
> when theres an interaction between *nix scripts & environment.
> Sometimes even quoting doesn't seem to carry the correct path info
> thru to the final WinApp , so you have to move the app to non-space
> path location or use the short name above.

Now I don't know what your actual question was.

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