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Re: Changes in path handling in Cygwin-1.1.1
- To: cygwin users <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Changes in path handling in Cygwin-1.1.1
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 17:42:58 -0400
- References: <20000524213534.26759.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 02:35:34PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>The following information may or may not cause you problems:
>
>Prior to cygwin-1.1.1 a path beginning with a \ was treated the same as
>a path beginning with a /. As of cygwin-1.1.1 paths beginning with \
>are now considered absolute windows paths while paths beginning with /
>are considered absolute cygwin paths. Also, a path containing but not
>starting with a \ will be considered a relative windows path. I have
>no idea what happens yet if there is a mix.
If the path has a backslash it is considered a Windows path.
cgf
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