Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <003a01c0ddca$b396a320$d938a8c0@Hadfield> From: "Mark Hadfield" To: "Cygwin Mailing List" References: <20010516012452.A14429@redhat.com> Subject: Re: cygwin interaction with explorer Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 17:40:23 +1200 Organization: NIWA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 From: "Christopher Faylor" > > What leads you to believe that this is a cygwin problem? I can > do a > > ls \\host\share It's the quotation marks: C:\>set CYGWIN= C:\>ls \\thor\hadfieldnt DXclock alphaev5-dec-osf4.0a doc install man share DXnotepad bin etc lib scripts tmp DXterm dmf include libexec setvars C:\>ls "\\thor\hadfieldnt" ls: \thor\hadfieldnt: No such file or directory C:\>set CYGWIN=noglob C:\>ls \\thor\hadfieldnt DXclock alphaev5-dec-osf4.0a doc install man share DXnotepad bin etc lib scripts tmp DXterm dmf include libexec setvars C:\>ls "\\thor\hadfieldnt" DXclock alphaev5-dec-osf4.0a doc install man share DXnotepad bin etc lib scripts tmp DXterm dmf include libexec setvars And of course if you want to set up a Windows association you need the quotes around %1 to cope with spaces in the file & directory names. --- Mark Hadfield m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple