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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:43:09 -0500
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At 03:32 PM 12/21/2001, Andrew Markebo wrote:
>A small but though, you need to be careful when you throw paths at the
>tools, they want unix-paths, separated by /, not \, and they probably
>don't understand drive-letters.

Generally, no.  With the possible exception of additional configuration 
for 'make', which I noted in my response to this thread, Cygwin-enabled
tools understand DOS-style paths just fine.  Any that don't would be 
considered buggy at this point.  



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