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Re: 'cygpath -ml <posix_8.3_path>' bug?


On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:42:07PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Lee,
>
>Perhaps. In particular, if one uses Windows mode (instead of mixed 
>mode) you get the result I think you were expecting (except, of course, 
>for the orientation of the name separators).

Well, since POSIX doesn't have anything like "long file names" I think
you could say this isn't really a bug.  The -l is a no-op in this case.

Or one could always submit a patch...

cgf

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