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From: "Pitts, Christopher (Inland)" <CPitts AT iccnet DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: sprintf question.
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:51:08 -0500
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard A Badger [mailto:bab AT vx DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 1:44 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: sprintf question.


>The problem does not lie in sprintf(), but with system().
>System invokes a shell which re-interprets the backslashes
> \w -> w, \s -> s and \n -> n 


Yea, I found that about the time I sent the message off. supposedly there is
a define 
"HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM" that controls this (I think, if I'm reading
 http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Host-Config.html correctly), however
defining this  doesn't seem to make a difference to cygwin.


>The cygwin shell, ash -- I'm guessing here --, likes slashes, not back
slashes.
>You might try, system("/cygdrive/c/winnt/system32/notepad.exe");

Forward slashes work.



>BTW, why copy backslashes at all?
I have a program that takes user input in the form of directory paths, hence
the backslashes.  

Does cygwin supposed to obey the "HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM" defines?  I
don't see any reason it should'nt but maybe I'm reading the docs wrong or
just missing something else.


C. Pitts

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