Greetings, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)! > I followed and understood the discussion to all the recent cygpath postings, > so I understand and expect the following:
> $ cygpath -w 'a*b' | od -An -tx1c > 61 ef 80 aa 62 0a > a 357 200 252 b \n > $ > But, consider the following: > $ cygpath -w a:b | od -An -tx1c > 41 3a 62 0a > A : b \n > $ > Instead of the special character colon (:), shouldn't cygpath be showing > something in the Unicode Private Use area? No, it shouldn't. You've requested a name "b" in the current directory on the disk "A:", or a file substream "b" of the file "a". Both are valid system paths. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, February 21, 2017 21:01:01 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
