Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:40:51 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200201160940.SAA06729@mail.raidway.ne.jp> From: Yasushi Higuchi To: "Armin Samide" Subject: Re: Backslashes on japanese Windows NT Cc: In-Reply-To: <008b01c19e02$2c1f8170$0b01a8c0@athlon> References: <008b01c19e02$2c1f8170$0b01a8c0@athlon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.00.08 On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:21:10 +0100 "Armin Samide" wrote: >I have a problem with a japanese NT4 System. >Backslashes on this machine are display as something that looks like a Y >with two straight lines going horizontally through tthe Y. >So, if I now try to use for example cygpath the trouble begins, because >cygpath cannot interpret this symbol. > >Has anybody experienced similar thing and has a solution for this behaviour >? '\' is equivalent to backslash in Japanese Windows. And, there is even a escape character of shell in '\\'. Therefore, you must write '\\'. example) $ cd / $ pwd / $ cygpath -w / c:\ap\cygwin $ cygpath -u c:\\ap\\cygwin / $ -- Yasushi Higuchi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/