From: cgf@bbc.com (Chris Faylor) Subject: Re: pathname conversion 25 Sep 1997 11:16:10 -0700 Message-ID: References: <01BCC99A.B46B51D0@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Reply-To: cgf@bbc.com To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In article <01BCC99A.B46B51D0@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: >Fabrice.Popineau wrote: >> Cygnus's goal was to allow Unix programs to run unmodified on NT. >> But there is a need too for Gnu utilities to run under Win32, with >> Win32 specifics. Emacs was ported and sources include Win32 and Unix > >I can't understand the discussion about pthnames at all... Gnu-win32 tools allows to use both unix and win32 name conventions: > >H:\>ls -l h:\site >total 1110 >-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ Domain A 320512 Jul 05 00:00 bash.exe [snip] I think that the main complaint is that this won't work under bash. And, something like: write /etc/passwd won't work either. -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf@bbc.com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be." - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".