Meaningful Windows locations and cygpath (Was Re: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents with bash cp?)

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

--- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#CYGPATH
> >
> > "On Win9x systems with only a single user, -A has no effect; -D and -AD
> > would have the same output. "
> 
> What I meant, however, was that I'll look into the fix (this really isn't
> correct behavior, as even with a single user there are the All Users
> directories on Win98).  If the API calls don't return the right values, we
> should guess, or something...

Well, I may be wrong, but I believe that the "All Users" directory is
only used if you set up "User Profiles". It exists if you don't, but isn't
used. Unfortunately I no longer have Win98 installed (did I say
*un*fortunately?!) so I'm not going to be able to verify this.

If we guessed at it, using for example 

cp myfile "$(cygpath -AD)"

would not really copy a file to the Desktop on Win98, though it would on
WinNT/2000/XP. That's kinda the point of the -A switch.

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