Re: Path name conversions, Posix --- Win32

["Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>]

I had asked a similar question in Sept.  It is also discussed in Oct.
Goto the mail archives sort by subject and look for subject of "pathname 
conversion" dated 22 Sep 1997.

>From: "Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz>
>To: "Gnu-Win32 Mailing List" <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
>Subject: Path name conversions, Posix <-> Win32
>Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:22:09 +1300
>
>Where can I find command-line utilities for conversion between Cygwin32
>Posix-style and Win32 path names? Eg, a pair of utilities that work 
like
>this:
>
>bash$ echo //C/foo | win32path
>C:\foo
>bash$ echo C:\\foo | posixpath
>//C/foo
>
>I know it's not too difficult to implement this via string substitution 
in
>awk or bash. (The above examples are real output, produced by a pair of
>Python scripts that I wrote.) What I really want is something that 
knows
>about Cygwin32 mounts, eg:
>
>bash$ mount D: /cdrom
>bash$ echo D:\\foo | posixpath
>/cdrom/foo
>bash$ echo /cdrom/foo | win32path
>D:\foo
>
>Obviously this functionality is built into Cygwin32, but I don't know 
of any
>simple way to access it at the command line.
>
>----
>Mark Hadfield,  m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz
>National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
>PO Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand
>
>
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