On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:21:10 +0100 "Armin Samide" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a problem with a japanese NT4 System. >Backslashes on this machine are display as something that looks like a Y >with two straight lines going horizontally through tthe Y. >So, if I now try to use for example cygpath the trouble begins, because >cygpath cannot interpret this symbol. > >Has anybody experienced similar thing and has a solution for this behaviour >? '\' is equivalent to backslash in Japanese Windows. And, there is even a escape character of shell in '\\'. Therefore, you must write '\\'. example) $ cd / $ pwd / $ cygpath -w / c:\ap\cygwin $ cygpath -u c:\\ap\\cygwin / $ -- Yasushi Higuchi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/