Hello all,

In Emacs 23.4-2 on Cygwin, the byte-compile-file Elisp function does not
recognize MS-DOS style paths.  E.g., if I call (byte-compile-file
"C:/foo/bar.el" t), it will try to compile
"/home/ngroothuis/C:/foo/bar.el".

This is a problem for those of developing in Clojure, as Leiningen's Swank
plugin has Emacs execute an ELisp file in the user's home directory. 
Since Clojure runs on the JVM, when it reads the HOME environment variable
to build the path to the ELisp file, it sees the MS-DOS style path rather
than the POSIX-style path.

- Neal