cygpath behaviour changed

Randall R Schulz rrschulz@cris.com
Sun Nov 10 13:28:00 GMT 2002


Lynn,

Cygpath as you've show it operating, is working perfectly correctly. The 
"--path" option is for converting PATH-like variables in which several file 
or directory names are separated by colons (UNIX -> Windows) or semicolons 
(Windows -> Unix).

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 13:25 2002-11-10, you wrote:
>I've just installed the latest cygwin.dll and bash. An existing script no 
>longer works.  I tracked it to the following:
>
>cygpath --path --windows "c:\WINNT"
>produces c;c:\WINNT  (note the leading c;)
>
>cygpath --windows "c:\WINNT"
>produces the correct c:\WINNT
>
>cygpath --path --windows /c/WINNT/
>produces the correct c:\WINNT
>
>my mounts are:
>c:\program files on /PF type system (binmode)
>C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
>C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
>C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
>c: on /c type system (binmode)
>r: on /r type system (binmode)
>w: on /w type system (binmode)
>
>Lynn


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