On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
You are absolutely correct. I apologize for the misinformation.
Igor
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