From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: "Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)" <Kenneth.Nellis@conduent.com>,
cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygpath (reprised)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <198383594.20170221210252@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBEEB39@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net>
Greetings, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)!
> I followed and understood the discussion to all the recent cygpath postings,
> so I understand and expect the following:
> $ cygpath -w 'a*b' | od -An -tx1c
> 61 ef 80 aa 62 0a
> a 357 200 252 b \n
> $
> But, consider the following:
> $ cygpath -w a:b | od -An -tx1c
> 41 3a 62 0a
> A : b \n
> $
> Instead of the special character colon (:), shouldn't cygpath be showing
> something in the Unicode Private Use area?
No, it shouldn't.
You've requested a name "b" in the current directory on the disk "A:", or a
file substream "b" of the file "a".
Both are valid system paths.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 21:01:01
Sorry for my terrible english...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-21 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-21 17:22 Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-02-21 18:05 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2017-02-21 18:22 ` Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-02-25 16:38 ` cyg Simple
2017-02-26 1:20 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-28 19:56 ` cyg Simple
2017-03-01 13:20 ` Andrey Repin
2017-03-01 14:33 ` cyg Simple
2017-02-27 14:03 ` Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-02-28 20:15 ` cyg Simple
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