From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: cygnus bugs 13 Jul 1997 02:45:34 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC8F8C.F7348920.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Tim Newsham'" Encoding: 19 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Tim Newsham wrote: > - cygwin does not properly transform command line path names across > mount points. If I am on drive "D:" and type "vi /tmp/foo", > I end up editing "D:\tmp\foo" and not "C:\tmp\foo" even though > "/tmp" is on "C:". (vi is not compiled with cygwin). > Cygwin should transform the path to "C:\tmp\foo" for the benefit > of non-cygwin applications. > Use cygwin-compiled vi :-) What path cygwin should to transform? /tmp/foo? Cygwin doesn't knows abut command-line argument meaning. Do you wish cygwin to transform "grep /tmp/foo" to "grep c:\tmp\foo" ?-) You will kill cygwin's authors after that :-) -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".