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Date:	Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:07:14 -0600
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According to Tomasz Chmielewski on 4/1/2008 5:59 AM:
| According to http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html:
|
|   Cygwin supports both Win32- and POSIX-style paths, where directory
|   delimiters may be either forward or back slashes. UNC pathnames
|   (starting with two slashes and a network name) are also supported.

Cygwin1.dll does.  But that doesn't mean all cygwin apps do.

| It works fine with cygwin paths:
|
| $ rsync -v /cygdrive/c/1 /cygdrive/c/2

Then use that.  POSIX paths are the preferred way to specify files, and if
a backslash-path doesn't work, we aren't going to bend over backwards to
make it "work".

|
| Why does it fail with Win32-paths?

In the case of rsync (and also tar), the program has a special and
documented syntax of remote-name:file, so you are asking to find the
remote machine named "C" and the file "\1" on that machine, rather than
the file "1" on the local drive c.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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