On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Martin Maurer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when i call
>
> myeditor.exe /etc/services
>
> where myeditor is a win32 editor program, then i get a error messages
> that the file
>
> d:\cygwin\home\martin\tc\services
>
> does not exist. I think there a two problems:
>
> 1) instead of ...\etc\... there is only ...\tc\...
> 2) etc directory is not in ...\home\martin...
>
> Is this only a problem of my system, or also reproduceable on other systems
> ?
>
> BTW: I am using default shell after installation, which i think is bash.
> Got the same error on my previous version (perhaps two weeks old).
>
> Greetings,
> Martin Maurer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
This is expected behavior. Remember, "myeditor" is a Windows program, and
thus interprets the leading "/e" as a flag, which leaves "tc/services" as
the filename. Since you're most likely running it from your home
directory, this explains the prepended "c:\cygwin\home\martin\".
You should use "cygpath" to convert Cygwin POSIX paths to a format that
Windows programs can understand, e.g.,
myeditor.exe "`cygpath -w /etc/services`"
Hope this helps,
Igor
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