cygpath usage (was: RE: Posible bug in cygpath Windows -> Unix conversion)

Tue Oct 10 09:48:00 GMT 2000

Nope, you are right. I was just pointing out that, looking at the
results of:
 cygpath -a -u a:abc
and
 cygpath -u a:abc
it looks like the command is treating the argument as absolute also, in
this case.
There was another message on this thread from Chris Faylor saying he had
found the cause of the problem and fixed it.
Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>> >
> > It looks like the conversion assumes a "drive_letter:slash" and so is
> > cutting the first 3 characters, producing the output you see. This is
> > probably the result of using the -a option, forcing cygpath to assume
> > the source string is an absolute path when in fact it is not.
> >
>> I believe, the option -a means, that the *result* should be absolute path.
> Look here:
>> mw1g017@MW1G17C% cygpath -a -u foo
> /cygdrive/c/win32app/bin/foo
> mw1g017@MW1G17C% cygpath -a -w foo
> c:\win32app\bin\foo
>> At least, I always understood it this way. Correct me if I'm wrong.
>> -andrej

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Bob McGowan
Staff Software Quality Engineer
VERITAS Software
rmcgowan@veritas.com
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