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Re: Strange cygpath behavior.

Greetings, Peter Rosin!

> As you are apparently using the cmd "shell", the correct way to quote
> arguments in order to preserve spaces etc, is to use double quotes
> and escape all backslashes with an extra backslash.

Ok, please explain, how could I escape backslashes in, say, Explorer?
It could only quote the string.
I can't even write my own conversion utility :/
No amount of external conversion would help using diff or patch freely.


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 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 27.06.2011, <15:39>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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