Richard Stanton writes: > This result occurs because I'm using (Cygwin) bash as my shell inside > Emacs, not the Windows default, cmdproxy.exe. It's therefore true that > my shell does *not* expect DOS file names (and gets very upset when > you pass it a backslash...), but escaping the ":" seems to cause > problems because now ":" is taken to be part of the file name, I > think, rather than part of "c:", the name of the (Windows) disk.
No, the backslash would be OK for the shell. But you are not sending that string to a shell (much less bash), you are sending it to a Win32 program. Windows programs are not expecting any quoting in their arguments (not even cmd-style quoting). Write a shell wrapper around each windows program that you are calling through your cygwinized Emacs... Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Waldorf MIDI Implementation & additional documentation: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfDocs
