Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:02:26 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: mail@davideonline.it Subject: Re: RCS and absolute file parameter Message-ID: <20020515130226.GG11699@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, mail@davideonline.it References: <6505803092002.1021446238660.8279839.mail@davideonline.it.MailpuccinoKongEuTak> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6505803092002.1021446238660.8279839.mail@davideonline.it.MailpuccinoKongEuTak> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:03:58AM +0000, Davide Montesin wrote: >Hi, > >I have installed cygwin on my >Windows machine. >I use rcs. I have found >a problem. >Some time I will use rcs with >absolute parameter in windows format >like: > >ci -d -u -x,v c:\temp\a.txt c:\temp\RCS\a.txt,v > >but the command report an error: > >file RCS/c:\temp\a.txt not found. > >The problem is that the path is not >converted like unix before the substitution. > >If I use a unix path like > >ci -d -u -x,v /cygdrive/c/temp/a.txt /cygdrive/c/temp/RCS/a.txt,v" > >all work ok! > >There is a patch?? No. >This is a bug?? No. Cygwin is a UNIX emulation layer for Windows. The whole point of the product is to avoid MS-DOS path names. However, some programs are forgiving and deal with them more or less correctly. RCS is, apparently, not one of them. See also: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#see-above cgf -- 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/