From: pete@horus.cix.co.uk (Pete Jordan) Subject: Re: pathname conversion 22 Sep 1997 17:41:41 -0700 Message-ID: References: <19970922170524.16690.qmail@hotmail.com> Reply-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com earnie_boyd@hotmail.com (Earnie Boyd) wrote: > Does anyone know of a command/function which will give the translation > of the cygnus path name and vice versa? > > I'm using vim and it would be nice to have the translated full path to > Win32 when trying to edit with vim the file that is in a cygwin.dll > translated path. Have a look at the code in my debash utility (http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/download/debash-1.0.tar.gz) as this does essentially what you're asking for to allow GNU-Win32 paths to be passed to ordinary Windows applications. Pete Jordan ~ Horus Communications ~ http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/ "Pass me another elf, sergeant, this one's split" - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".