Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I said is accurate. However, in the absence of any explicit > mention on your part, I assumed you were issuing the commands you > specified from a Cygwin shell. It now appears you are entering them > into CMD.exe. > > If I'm not mistaken, arguments are processed differently in Cygwin > binaries when they are invoked from a Windows program than they are > when invoked by another Cygwin process. Someone who knows better (or > the manual...) will have to supply details, it's a mode of operation I > never encounter (CMD.exe offends me deeply...). I have a vague > recollection that there is a CYGWIN environment variable option that > controls or supresses or modifies this behavior somehow--I'm even less > sure about this than I am about the variant argument processing itself.
OK, I will look into it. > I believe this is why you're experiencing difficulties. You'll have to > familiarize yourself with the special argument processing in the > Windows -> > > Cygwin transition. > > Or, you can do what I strongly suggest to everyone who'll listen: > DON'T USE CMD.EXE! Thank you very much for you comments, but I must repeat that in my case XEmacs calls bash -c "..." _directly_ via CreateProcess() with _exactly_ the same results. So I still tend to consider the necessity of "\\\\" as a bug. Hope to hear from you soon, Dmitry -- 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/
