Re: [Fwd: Re: Web2C: CYGWIN is not DOSISH]

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 04:46 PM 12/5/2000, Jerome Benoit wrote:


>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:23:27PM +0100, Jerome Benoit wrote:
>>
>>>>I have done some fix in view to build web2c-7.3.3 under cygwn-1.1:
>>>>the main idea is that  CYGWIN is _NOT_ DOSISH
>>>Is CYGWIN supposed to understand DOS-style pathnames (e.g, C:\dir)?
>>>If so, then it definetely is DOSISH.  If not, then the DOSISH support
>>>can be safely removed.
>>>-- Olaf Weber
>>
>>Gawd, how could anyone *possibly* know the answer to that question?  I
>>mean, how could you figure out anything that complex???
>>You'd actually have to try it or something.
>
>I have tried it: for Web2C CYGWIN is not DOSISH (it does not work if one assume this)
>
>But it seems that `ls C:\\WINDOWS' works !
>So accordingly `ls' is DOSIH
>hence the trouble.



Cygwin understands DOS paths if the path has proper syntax for UNIX 
environments.  If I knew what qualified as making something be "DOSISH",
I might be able to determine whether I agree with your statements or 
not...  For those wondering, I consider the question of how to define 
"DOSISH" to be rhetorical!;-)





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