On Nov 13, 2019, at 2:08, Frank Redeker wrote: > I think on both systems the handling of 8.3 names is configured > differently. You can check this with the Window command fsutil. (This > command requires elevated permissions) > > I get the following output on my system. > > C:\WINDOWS\system32>fsutil 8dot3name query d: > The volume state is: 0 (8dot3 name creation is enabled). > The registry state is: 2 (Per volume setting - the default).
Thanks, I think this is very interesting, I did not know that such a setting existed. It was indeed disabled for my E: drive. However, after enabling it I still can’t get “cygpath -d" to work as expected. This setting also doesn’t explain why cygpath returns the correct DOS path when I pass it in a Unix style path instead of a Windows style path. Alfred -- 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
