On Thu 8/28/08 22:38 +0200 Reini Urban wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) schrieb: > > There hasn't been any effort to support Windows paths in Cygwin for a long > > time. That doesn't mean it wouldn't have worked sometime in the past.
it worked in cygwin 1.5.19-4 > > It's just that doing so is not a goal of this project. Use the POSIX form > > of > > the path and will work nicely for you - /cygdrive/d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe. > > If > > you need to use COMSPEC, run it through 'cygpath' to convert it to a POSIX > > path. > > $ cygstart $COMSPEC > is an easy alternative. Thanks, 'cygstart "$COMSPEC"' - I see, that starts a new console session -- Will this syntax remain supported?: cd "$WINDIR" Or should I cure my habit of pasting quote protected windows paths into (interactive bash ) 'cd' commands? -- thanks, Tom -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
