Re: canonpath in perl as it relates to cygwin

2002-05-06 Thread Christopher Murray
>Is anyone here already reporting this to perlbug? I am willing to, but if >someone has already reported it, there is no need for a 'me too'. It wasn't yet clear to me if this was a bug, so I hadn't yet thought of doing this. If you would be willing to submit the report, then I would defer to

Re: canonpath in perl as it relates to cygwin

2002-05-06 Thread Christopher Murray
Actually, unless I am totally overlooking something, this looks to be a step backward. Will the following regexp - $^O =~ m/^(?:qnx|nto)$/ cause a match under cygwin in perl 5.8)? I can't see how, but then again, I haven't actually run perl 5.8 to check what $^O returns. If not, then what

canonpath in perl as it relates to cygwin

2002-05-06 Thread Christopher Murray
Hi all, I've been lurking on this list for just about 5 years now. Thanks everyone for a great piece of software. My question concerns the use of File::Spec->canonpath in perl (for cygwin). I did a search of the relevant mailing list archives, as well as google newsgroups, but did not seem

cd behavior in tcsh with non-posix style paths

2001-12-28 Thread Christopher Murray
Hi everyone, Pardon my ignorance on this, but I have searched the mailing list archives on this (as well as read the user guide to look for guidance) but this problem doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere. I have been using tcsh and cygwin for a long time now (since the b19 days) and have