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Re: pathname conversion
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: pathname conversion
- From: cgf at bbc dot com (Chris Faylor)
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 15:25:10 GMT
- Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.
- References: <01BCC99A.B46B51D0@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
- Reply-To: cgf at bbc dot com
In article <01BCC99A.B46B51D0@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>,
Sergey Okhapkin <sos@prospect.com.ru> wrote:
>Fabrice.Popineau wrote:
>> Cygnus's goal was to allow Unix programs to run unmodified on NT.
>> But there is a need too for Gnu utilities to run under Win32, with
>> Win32 specifics. Emacs was ported and sources include Win32 and Unix
>
>I can't understand the discussion about pthnames at all... Gnu-win32 tools allows to use both unix and win32 name conventions:
>
>H:\>ls -l h:\site
>total 1110
>-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ Domain A 320512 Jul 05 00:00 bash.exe
[snip]
I think that the main complaint is that this won't work under bash.
And, something like:
write /etc/passwd
won't work either.
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