From: ggp AT informix DOT com (Guy Gascoigne - Piggford) Subject: Re: pathname conversion 24 Sep 1997 09:46:21 -0700 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970924092155.018669d0.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.pdx.informix.com> References: <199709232045 DOT QAA04935 AT elektra DOT ultra DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "John R. Dennis" Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 04:45 PM 9/23/97 -0400, you wrote: >Am I in the minority when I suggest porting includes making the port >compatible with the target environment? > >Please note I am not suggesting removing support for better solutions >nor am I unappreciative of the fine work Cygnus has done on my >behalf. I'm just frustrated with using some of the tools because of >what seems to be a needless incompatibility. I suspect others are in >the same boat. Anybody else run into this problem? Actually I agree with you completely, but I'd begun to get the idea that the Cygnus target wasn't to make the gnu tools compatible with NT, but to make NT look as much like unix as possible. It's rather like the case sensitivity of filename completion in bash, I don't mind if this is an option, but since the file system generaly is case insensitive I find that it's a real pain when it doesn't work the way I'd expect. You only need to take a look at the NT emacs port to see how it should be done. Here we have a huge body of code that seems to offer the best of both worlds, all the unixness that you might expect as well as actually support for it's NT environment. That said, I do use the Cygnus tools a great deal, I think that they are a great project and I really appreciate the work that's been done, I just think that their target and mine might differ slightly. Guy - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".