Hi Corinna, "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:44:51AM +0200, Schaible, Jorg wrote: > > The reason why I just implemented -s (in 1999) was that GetLongPathName is > > not available for Win95. If we have to be Win95-compatible still, you will > > have to load the function yourself directly form the DLL and use > > FindFirstFile (as mensioned in the MSDN docs for *GetShortPathName*) for > > every part of the path if the function is not available. > > Are you interested in implementing that functionality anyway?
No, not me! I just want to remember Mark, that it is not done just by calling GetLongPathName. Mark, do you still want to implement this ? > Just > FYI, it's available since W2K only. Even on NT4 you'd have to > go the hard way... Right, I remember. Since I developed the GetShortPathName option for cygpath on NT4, I did not implement a counter part ... ;-) > > you've seen my own patch for cygpath.cc in cygwin-apps ? Chris already > > answered positivly and RH should have the assignment from late 1999 still. > > My diff was against the sources from 14.5... > > I saw it but it doesn't contain a patch for the above problem. > It's applied, btw. OK. Fine. I was not sure if I have to send the patch again against the new sources with the applied patch of Mark. Regards, Jörg -- 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/
