From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: Cygwin <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000321165751.A21202@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38D7F0A2.8C5F68F4@veritas.com>
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:58:58PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
>When I used the //c/dir... format to change to "Multimedia Files" and
>typed pwd, it printed out "/cygdrive/c/Multimedia Files" (expected) but
>"echo $PWD" printed "/c/Multimedia Files". This is clearly not
>correct.
It is precisely because of problems like this that we switched to using
/cygdrive/x rather than //x. Many UNIX utilities assume that they can
clean up multiple slashes. That results in your "/c/Multimedia Files"
above.
That's why the //x form will be deprecated in the next release.
-Chris Faylor
-Cygwin Engineering Manager
-Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat Company
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-21 12:52 Earnie Boyd
2000-03-21 13:10 ` Christos Zoulas
2000-03-21 13:37 ` Chris Faylor
2000-03-21 13:53 ` Bob McGowan
2000-03-21 13:57 ` Chris Faylor [this message]
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2000-03-21 13:03 Halim, Salman
2000-03-21 11:35 Steve Kelem
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