Re: Multiple backslashes

2002-02-12 Thread Dmitry Bely
"Robinow, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you looked into the use of the XEmacs variable setq directory-sep-char? Hmm, it might really be the solution. Thank you very much for the idea. Hope to hear from you soon, Dmitry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-

Re: Multiple backslashes

2002-02-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Dmitry, I'm trying to help you, but you seem insistent on just declaring Cygwin buggy. It is not and it is possible for you to resolve the problem. I gave you all the information you need to do so. One last time, I'll answer your points... At 11:46 2002-02-10, you wrote: >Randall R Schulz <[

Re: Multiple backslashes

2002-02-10 Thread Dmitry Bely
Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If your XEmacs is a Windows app and not a Cygwin one, then my caveats > apply because it is another example of a Windows process initiating a > Cygwin program. It's not acceptable? How then to invoke the bash itself :-) > From the Cygwin FAQ: > -=

Re: Multiple backslashes

2002-02-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Dmitry, If your XEmacs is a Windows app and not a Cygwin one, then my caveats apply because it is another example of a Windows process initiating a Cygwin program. From the Cygwin FAQ: -==- How does wildcarding (globbing) work? If the DLL thinks it was invoked from a DOS style prompt, it runs

Re: Multiple backslashes

2002-02-10 Thread Dmitry Bely
Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I said is accurate. However, in the absence of any explicit > mention on your part, I assumed you were issuing the commands you > specified from a Cygwin shell. It now appears you are entering them > into CMD.exe. > > If I'm not mistaken, argum

Re: Multiple backslashes

2002-02-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Dmitry, What I said is accurate. However, in the absence of any explicit mention on your part, I assumed you were issuing the commands you specified from a Cygwin shell. It now appears you are entering them into CMD.exe. If I'm not mistaken, arguments are processed differently in Cygwin binari

Re: Multiple backslashes

2002-02-10 Thread Dmitry Bely
Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Apart from the fact that this question involves Windows native path > name syntax (which, by the way, works equally well with forward > slashes), this is not Cygwin-specific. > > > There are two levels or rounds of interpretation of your command >

Re: Multiple backslashes

2002-02-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Dmitry, Apart from the fact that this question involves Windows native path name syntax (which, by the way, works equally well with forward slashes), this is not Cygwin-specific. There are two levels or rounds of interpretation of your command string. The first is applied by the shell that in