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Re: cygwin-apps Digest 15 Jan 2002 17:47:13 -0000 Issue 300
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com, Joshua Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:25:43 +0100
- Subject: Re: cygwin-apps Digest 15 Jan 2002 17:47:13 -0000 Issue 300
- References: <1011116833.22388.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <20020115181825.43689.qmail@web20002.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:18:25AM -0800, Joshua Franklin wrote:
> > Thanks for the patch. I applied it to my local
> > sandbox but I
> > was somewhat surprised about the behaviour since
> >
> > cygpath -D -A
> >
> > has another result as
> >
> > cygpath -A -D
> >
> > which is not what a user expects. The options
> > should be scanned
> > and after the scanning they should be evaluated
> > (right after the
> > switch statement). Would you mind to change your
> > patch accordingly?
> >
> > Corinna
> >
> Yeah, I figured that since the (unpatched) cygpath's
> current behaviour requires switches to precede other
> options that this was expected:
>
> $ cygpath -Ww
> /c/WINNT
>
> $ cygpath -wW
> C:\WINNT
>
> Should I try and change that, too?
That would be very nice!
Corinna
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