mssing packages for cygwin

[Tom Lee]

>According to Tom Lee on 9/30/2006 11:24 PM:
> >
> > I don't undersand why "ls c:/test" works but not for
> > "tar cvf test.tar c:/test"
>
>Because ls does not parse its arguments, but upstream tar treats c:/test
>as meaning open the file /test on the remote machine named c; and because
>I'm not in the mood to patch either ls or tar from what the upstream
>packages provide.  For cygwin programs in general, POSIX paths will work,
>but you are lucky if DOS paths happen to work, since the point of cygwin
>is to provide a Linux emulation (aka POSIX-like behavior), and DOS paths
>are not supported in Linux.

For postx-like behavior, I find that djgpp mv.exe allows me to run
mv *.txt /my/directory/ or mv *.txt c:/my/directory/
in the c drive

while cygwin have to use:
mv *.txt /cygdrive/c/my/directory/

do you think ignoring /cygdrive/c would be an advantage to reduce the 
typing?

Tom

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