Greetings, Christopher Faylor! > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 07:51:05AM -0500, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >>cygpath -w seems to be inconsistent with /dev/* things: >> >>$ uname -svr >>CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.14s(0.260/5/3) 20120406 19:41:34 >>$ cygpath -w /dev/clip >>C:\cygwin\dev\clip >>$ cygpath -w /dev/random >>/dev/random >>$ >> >>I first thought it was because C:\cygwin\dev\random >>does not exist, but then: >> >>$ cygpath -w /dev/xyz >>C:\cygwin\dev\xyz >>$
> /dev/random has special meaning to Cygwin. There is no windows > equivalent to it so translating it to a Windows path wouldn't > make any sense. You couldn't use it in a Windows program. > /dev/xyz has no meaning so Cygwin just translates it to a MS-DOS > path. Could it at least translate /dev/clipboard to CLIP: ? Not very useful in general, but I can use it. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 19.04.2012, <15:23> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
