From: "René Berber" <rene.berber@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Can I find where cygwin is installed (for automation purposes)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:30:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <707d4053-71ab-7368-9b4d-8df25408dde9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACac1F_ptn5Td_x5K2-8m5mqbiRN30NjJkrQWqPFiuQmx6FCnw@mail.gmail.com>
On 4/15/2020 1:10 PM, Paul Moore via Cygwin wrote:
[snip]
> Thanks. Can you explain what the \?? prefix on the Installations
> values is about? I'm nervous that there's something going on there
> that means that just ignoring the first 3 characters isn't
> sufficient... ;-)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-path-formats
Look for "DOS device paths"
--
R.B.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-15 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-15 10:29 Paul Moore
2020-04-15 10:51 ` Csaba Raduly
2020-04-15 12:42 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-04-15 13:30 ` Paul Moore
2020-04-15 10:53 ` Csaba Ráduly
2020-04-15 13:29 ` Paul Moore
2020-04-15 15:53 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-04-15 18:10 ` Paul Moore
2020-04-15 18:30 ` René Berber [this message]
2020-04-15 18:39 ` Paul Moore
2020-04-15 20:49 ` René Berber
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