Re: MSYS path behavior in Cygwin

2006-01-31 Thread tom
Alright -- thanks so much for the clarificaiton. From your suggestions I should be able to create a script that will do the job well enough. Thanks again -Tom -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: MSYS path behavior in Cygwin

2006-01-30 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: > tom wrote: > > > I guess the two will be mutually exclusive, unless you Cygwin devs see > > some reason to merge some of Earnie's work. I'm have to believe > > there's some reason why it hasn't been done though. I'm sure it's > > non-trivial to say the

Re: MSYS path behavior in Cygwin

2006-01-30 Thread Brian Dessent
tom wrote: > I guess the two will be mutually exclusive, unless you Cygwin devs see some > reason to merge some of Earnie's work. I'm have to believe there's some > reason > why it hasn't been done though. I'm sure it's non-trivial to say the least. > > Thanks for the help anyways! Cygwin and

Re: MSYS path behavior in Cygwin

2006-01-30 Thread tom
See this thread for more info: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1430505&forum_id=290275 I guess the two will be mutually exclusive, unless you Cygwin devs see some reason to merge some of Earnie's work. I'm have to believe there's some reason why it hasn't been done though. I'm s

Re: MSYS path behavior in Cygwin

2006-01-30 Thread tom
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > But cygwin apps understand *nix style paths natively! ... Right - My problem comes when I want to run a windows app from the cygwin shell. For example: gvim.exe /c/src/myfile.cs Why would I want to do this: 1. The Cygwin shell in general has all sorts of good

RE: MSYS path behavior in Cygwin

2006-01-30 Thread Dave Korn
On 30 January 2006 16:25, tom wrote: > That said, one thing I loved about msys is the ability to pass a *nix > style path and have it automatically converted, i.e. I could start gvim > like so: > gvim.exe /c/src/myfile.cs > and the path would convert to 'C:\src\myfile.cs' for the windows exe. >