Re: cygwin-1.5.21: cygpath -w --long-name scrambles non-existing filename

2006-07-28 Thread Matthias Bolz
Hi, cygpath.exe built from CVS works great. Thanks for the very fast reply and solution! Matthias -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: h

Re: cygwin-1.5.21: cygpath -w --long-name scrambles non-existing filename

2006-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 27 19:10, Matthias Bolz wrote: > i.e., as long as the file name does not exist and exceeds a certain length, > it gets scrambled with the -l option. > Without the -l option, in posix format, or if the file exists, the output is > fine. > > Can you confirm this bug? Is there a workaround? T

cygwin-1.5.21: cygpath -w --long-name scrambles non-existing filename

2006-07-27 Thread Matthias Bolz
Hi, after updating from cygwin 1.5.19-4 to 1.5.21-1 cygpath seems to show a bug when called with the --long-name (or -l) option: Assuming that the filename "12345678901234567890" does NOT exist in the current dir, cygpath shows the following output: $ cygpath -m -l 12345678901234567890 1234567890