Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Wed Jul 2 06:33:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:45:04PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> We could use nul bytes for this, I suppose.  No one has to read the file.

Isn't the new way of coding special characters also a way to represent
a cygdrive by using an otherwise non-existing %xx expression?  E.g. using
just one character after the percent like

    %c/c/foo

or otherwise not used characters like uppercase

    %CD/d/bar

for instance?

Corinna

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