Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>]

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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