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Re: pathname conversion
In article <342B3821.36B3@switch.rockwell.com>,
banders <banders@ECD.Rockwell.COM> wrote:
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>> In article <01BCC99A.B46B51D0@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>,
>> Sergey Okhapkin <sos@prospect.com.ru> wrote:
>>>Fabrice.Popineau wrote:
>>>> Cygnus's goal was to allow Unix programs to run unmodified on NT.
>>>> But there is a need too for Gnu utilities to run under Win32, with
>>>> Win32 specifics. Emacs was ported and sources include Win32 and Unix
>>>
>>>I can't understand the discussion about pthnames at all... Gnu-win32
>>>tools allows to use both unix and win32 name conventions:
>>>
>>>H:\>ls -l h:\site total 1110 -rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ Domain A 320512 Jul
>>>05 00:00 bash.exe
>>[snip]
>>
>>I think that the main complaint is that this won't work under bash.
>>And, something like:
>>
>> write /etc/passwd
>
>Doesn't seem to be a problem with the cygwin stuff since this was
>written by some non gnuwin32 developer. So you could patch write to
>use the path conversion utilities (everybody patches executables, don't
>they?).
Ok. I've patched my version and it seems to work pretty well.
Here are the commands I used:
bash
cp /usr/local/bin/vim.exe /winnt35/system32/WRITE.EXE
Now I can edit files with WRITE using unix style filenames and commands!
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