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Re: cygdrive, pwd, and windows apps
- To: jeremy at sourcegear dot com
- Subject: Re: cygdrive, pwd, and windows apps
- From: jlarmour at redhat dot co dot uk (Jonathan Larmour)
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:34:47 +0100
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Newsgroups: cygnus.gnu-win32
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
In article <392553C7.66AE6190@sourcegear.com> you write:
>I have a problem in that if i try:
>
>notepad /cygdrive/c/sometextfile.txt
>
>notepad (being a windows app) has no idea how to find /cygdrive. So how
>do I easily get the dos-style path?
notepad `cygpath -w /cygdrive/c/sometextfile.txt` should do it.
Jifl
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