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Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 24 10:49, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On May 23 18:58, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >>>> ...as I previously noted, '-us' is a reasonable combination of flags, >>> I don't think so. The -s and -l modifiers don't make any sense with -u. >>> There's no short or long unix path. >> Does 'cd /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1' not work on your system? It does here, >> therefore there are indeed "short unix paths" and "long unix paths". (I >> also stated this previously...) > > Yes, these paths exist, but their existence doesn't make them any more > useful. Well, except they don't have spaces and therefore might be useful in situations where you need a path that you can't quote (someone mentioned once that e.g. autotools choke on paths with spaces). Anyway since you don't seem interested in my $0.02, they can just stay here... -- Matthew "Still the prettiest." -- Legolas (as quoted in The Very Secret Diaries by Cassandra Claire) http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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