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Re: cygpath -w 'a"b'


On Jul 14 18:22, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> It seems that the length of the string passed to cygpath -w 
> affects whether double quotes are translated or not:
> 
> $ cygpath -w '"12345"' | od -cAn
>    "   1   2   3   4   5   "  \n
> $ cygpath -w '"123456"' | od -cAn
>    "   1   2   3   4   5   6 357 200 242  \n

Thanks a lot for this additional info!  This hint gave me the idea what
goes wrong.  It only affects *relative* paths.  I applied a patch and
uploaded new developer snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/


Thanks again,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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