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Re: Access of files using absolute path (was: Error opening script file)


* Ronald Fischer (Mon, 7 May 2007 17:31:27 +0200)
> I experimented around with other applications. So far, I found that jar
> and jruby 
> have the problem that they can't open a file if it is listed absolutely
> (/cygdrive/...), 
> while for example ruby or zsh do not show this problem. So I first
> thought that maybe
> those applications have not been written with cygwin in mind - but then,
> they would
> have failed even with relative files - won't they?

Jruby and java are not Cygwin applications so they won't understand 
Cygwin paths (/cygdrive/) even if they can use \ and / as path 
delimiters.


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