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Re: The Cygwin User Guide on path names


On 8/25/2016 7:53 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Linda Walsh!

Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Ken Brown!

The documentation also says, "The usage of Win32 paths, though possible,
is deprecated...."  I wonder if this should be strengthened to say
something like, "The usage of Win32 paths, though possible, is strongly
deprecated and may be removed in a future release of Cygwin."

That would be the day Cygwin die for me.
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With best regards, Andrey Repin
Wednesday, August 24, 2016 12:50:55
Sorry for my terrible english...
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Curious -- but why?  How do you make use of win32 pathnames
( "C:\bin" versus "/bin" or "/c/bin" or "/cygdrive/c/bin" )
depending on how your cygwin is configured).

I make use of win32 paths directly.
diff and grep are the most used tools.

I'm wondering if maybe there is a misunderstanding?

I don't think so.

For the most part -- many cygwin apps may not work
correctly if given a win32 path in the same place you'd
put a *nix path due to the backslashes being turned into
quote sequences.

That's too bad for such poor apps.

I mean, you can't type:

ls C:\bin
  (instead of )
ls /c/bin

Can we differrentiate between C:/bin and C:\bin?

I've always used C:/bin. Using drive identifiers and UNIX-style path separators.

Is the proposal that this no longer be valid under cygwin?

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