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Re: cygwin and long filenames with spaces


mkdir /prog /cygdrive /dev
/<any-other-path-that-exists-in-cygwin-but-not-on-the-filesystem>

Terry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz@cris.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 7:00 PM
Subject: RE: cygwin and long filenames with spaces


> Hi,
>
> My experiments suggest both these contentions are correct, depending on
how
> one interprets them.
>
> If I type this:
>          ls -l /cygdr<TAB>
>
> or this:
>          ls -l /cygdr<ALT-*>
>
> (same as this:)
>          ls -l /cygdr<ALT-SHIFT-8>
>
> There are no completions. The same goes for "/pro" in place of "/cygdr".
>
> However, doing this:
>
>          ls -l /cygdrive/<ALT-*>
>
> I get a listing of all my drives (modulo the bug the causes my C: drive to
> be omitted from /cygdrive). Likewise, this works for "/proc".
>
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
>
> At 09:48 2002-08-12, news@garydjones.mailshell.com wrote:
> >On 09 Aug 2002, "John Morrison" <john.r.morrison@ntlworld.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> > >> From: news@garydjones.mailshell.com
> >
> > >> $ cd /cygdr<tab>
> > >> --
> > >> doesn't do what one might expect (i.e. it does not seem to
> > >> try  to complete the line).
> > >
> > > Tab completion only works with real directories.
> > > /cygdrive, /proc are virtual.
> >
> >Fairy snuff.
>
>
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