File path expansion problem (DLL version 1.5.3-1 and earlier)

File path expansion problem (DLL version 1.5.3-1 and earlier)

[Martin Maurer]

Hello,

when i call

myeditor.exe /etc/services

where myeditor is a win32 editor program, then i get a error messages
that the file

d:\cygwin\home\martin\tc\services

does not exist. I think there a two problems:

1) instead of ...\etc\... there is only ...\tc\...
2) etc directory is not in ...\home\martin...

Is this only a problem of my system, or also reproduceable on other systems
?

BTW: I am using default shell after installation, which i think is bash.
Got the same error on my previous version (perhaps two weeks old).

Greetings,

         Martin Maurer (MartinMaurer@clibb.de)


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Re: File path expansion problem (DLL version 1.5.3-1 and earlier)

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Martin Maurer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> when i call
>
> myeditor.exe /etc/services
>
> where myeditor is a win32 editor program, then i get a error messages
> that the file
>
> d:\cygwin\home\martin\tc\services
>
> does not exist. I think there a two problems:
>
> 1) instead of ...\etc\... there is only ...\tc\...
> 2) etc directory is not in ...\home\martin...
>
> Is this only a problem of my system, or also reproduceable on other systems
> ?
>
> BTW: I am using default shell after installation, which i think is bash.
> Got the same error on my previous version (perhaps two weeks old).
>
> Greetings,
>          Martin Maurer (MartinMaurer@clibb.de)

This is expected behavior.  Remember, "myeditor" is a Windows program, and
thus interprets the leading "/e" as a flag, which leaves "tc/services" as
the filename.  Since you're most likely running it from your home
directory, this explains the prepended "c:\cygwin\home\martin\".

You should use "cygpath" to convert Cygwin POSIX paths to a format that
Windows programs can understand, e.g.,

myeditor.exe "`cygpath -w /etc/services`"

Hope this helps,
	Igor
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RE: File path expansion problem (DLL version 1.5.3-1 and earlier)

[Jörg Schaible]

Hi Martin,

> Is this only a problem of my system, or also reproduceable on 
> other systems ?

well, this is normal. myeditor knows nothing about posix paths,
since it is no Cygwin application. For non-Cygwin apps you have
to convert the path yourself:

myeditor "`cygpath -w /etc/services`"

and you should take care in case of a non-Cygwin editor, that it
can handle unix text file format!

Regards,
Jörg

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