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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: posix and win32 enviornment Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:48:38 -0700 Organization: Salira Optical Networks Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <20030703011825.5597.qmail@web14202.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, zh In-Reply-To: Shankar Unni wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> [...] you'll be using the MinGW libraries, and your program will not >> understand POSIX paths (i.e., you'll have to use Win32 ones). > > Well, to be totally, utterly nitpicky, I believe "/WinNT/System32" is > a valid POSIX filename which will be understood by Win32 programs as > well (assuming that their current drive is "C:" :-). And also assuming that your Windows installation is in WinNT. With XP that's C:\Windows! (Hey you were the one that started this "totally, utterly nitpicky" stuff :-) ) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/