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From: Chris Faylor <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
To: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@teknowledge.com>
Cc: Craig MacFarlane <craigm@chemconnect.com>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: bash, javac and that pesky slash.
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000124125629.B21469@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v04220802b4b23e518417@[206.173.234.247]>

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 09:39:12AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>You must distinguish Cygwin programs from all others and use Windows 
>native path name syntax for any program not compiled for Cygwin. For 
>me, this most often manifests itself when I wish to launch Vim.

Of course, you can always get a cygwin version of vim and then you
wouldn't have this problem.

Check out the cygwin web page for pointers to all sorts of ported
software.

cgf

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-01-24  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-24  9:32 Craig MacFarlane
2000-01-24  9:39 ` Randall R Schulz
2000-01-24  9:41   ` Chris Faylor [this message]
2000-01-24  9:55     ` Randall R Schulz
2000-01-24  9:49   ` Andre Oliveira da Costa
2000-01-24  9:41 ` Chris Faylor
2000-01-24 11:36 ` Kazuhiro Fujieda
2000-01-24 11:03 David Robinow
2000-01-24 11:53 ` Andre Oliveira da Costa
2000-01-24 12:40 Halim, Salman
2000-01-24 16:05 Paul Johnston
2000-01-24 18:17 Eric Feliu
2000-01-25  9:20 ` Jeff Sturm

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