getting dos path from cygwin

[Dwight Schauer]

Use cygpath.

cygpath --help

in your case:

some_dos_command  $(cygpath -w path_to_cygwin_file)
or
some_dos_command  $(cygpath -wa path_to_cygwin_file)
 
The "a" option is to return the absolute path, and not the relative one.

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 07:25, you wrote:
>Â Greetings,
>Â I am trying to call link.exe on a lib, but it is in my cygwin path and i
>Â cannot seem to find a good way to translate my cygwin path into a dos path
>Â so ms's silly tools can understand it.
>
>Â any hints?
>
>Â thanks
>Â -ian reinhart geiser
>Â --
>Â Ian Geiser <geiseri@yahoo.com>
>Â http://geiseri.myip.org:8080/~geiseri/

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