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From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: vim-dev@vim.org
Subject: Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020422211121.B7762@cygbert.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200204221835.g3MIZoU02673@moolenaar.net>

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:35:50PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> I'm quite sure this is not a good solution.  It's just waiting to fail
> in another place.  The Unix code just isn't prepared for backslashes in
> a file name to be path separators, they are seen as escaping the special
> meaning of characters.
> 
> Why not add something at the start of main() to change backslashes to
> forward slashes?  Or better: Isn't there a cygwin trick for this
> already?

Sure: 

   #include <sys/cygwin.h>

   cygwin_conv_to_posix_path(const char *win_path, char *posix_path);

Corinna

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-22 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-22 11:30 Chris Metcalf
2002-04-22 12:08 ` Bram Moolenaar
2002-04-22 12:14   ` Chris Metcalf
2002-04-22 12:26     ` Corinna Vinschen
2002-04-22 12:18   ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2002-04-22 12:31     ` Bram Moolenaar
2002-04-22 12:39       ` small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for cygwin Christopher Faylor
2002-04-22 14:35         ` Michael A Chase
2002-04-22 14:53           ` Christopher Faylor
2002-04-22 15:27             ` Michael A Chase
2002-04-22 15:30               ` Christopher Faylor
2002-04-22 12:41       ` small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin Corinna Vinschen
2002-04-22 12:44       ` Chris Metcalf
2002-04-22 13:48         ` Bram Moolenaar
2002-04-22 12:41 small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for cygwin Richard Campbell

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