YACP

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Thu Jun 20 17:35:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 06:17:21PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>YACP (Yet Another Cygpath Patch)
>
>The major change that this make is setting the UNIXy output to be the
>default. This was already true for the -ADHPSW options. If this is a
>bad idea for some reason unknown to me, there were only 3 lines changed
>to do it. (Everything still works with --unix, of course.)
>
>Also, thinking about this new --type TYPE option, I was wondering what
>exactly the 'dos' type did. So I look at the code:
>
>-         if (strcasecmp (windows_format_arg, "mixed") == 0)
>-           mixed_flag = 1;
>-         else if (strcasecmp (windows_format_arg, "dos") == 0)
>-           /* nothing */;
>-         else
>-           usage (stderr, 1);
>-         break;
>
>Ah! It does /* nothing */, I see. So also this patch REMOVES the
>-t, --type option and changes it to -m, --mixed instead. This is hopefully
>easier to understand.

Actually, there was another option but it was obsolete so I removed it.
I figured that the --type option would provide the capability for other
formats for filenames in the future, like //?/ or whatever.

cgf



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