... grrr ... was meant to go to the list ... -----Original Message----- From: Jörg Schaible Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 8:43 AM To: 'Charles Wilson' Subject: RE: readshortcut app for cygutils
Hi Chuck, > > I don't think so. Look at the code of cygpath and you'll see that > > these two functions are only one half of the functionality. > If Rob has > > to provide -w someone will ask for absolute paths or short > names, etc. > > So better have a posixish tool and use cygpath for general > conversion. > > So you're saying that the output should always be in unix format? I > would prefer that, too -- but the original example gave the output in > full windows non-backslashified program-space-files glory... Uups. You're right. Yes, I vote strongly for unix path output. > Please, somebody, please, find the nitwit back in 1989 who > thought it'd > be a great idea to show off the nifty new space-allowed file name > convention in windows3.0 by requiring all programs to be > installed into > a "Program Files" directory... > > I can't think of a more deserving guy for the "sign him up on every > porn-spam mailing list on the planet" treatment... ROFL! Jörg
