On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 06:25:14PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >At 17:59 2003-03-19, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:42:07PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >>>Lee, >>> >>>Perhaps. In particular, if one uses Windows mode (instead of mixed >>>mode) you get the result I think you were expecting (except, of course, >>>for the orientation of the name separators). >> >>Well, since POSIX doesn't have anything like "long file names" I think >>you could say this isn't really a bug. The -l is a no-op in this case. >> >>Or one could always submit a patch... >> >>cgf > > >Chris, > >The ostensibly failing mode is conversion _to_ a Windows format, not to >POSIX format.
I know. The POSIX filename /cygdrive/c/docume~1 *is* exactly what you see. It doesn't have a "long equivalent". cgf -- 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/
