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On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On a separate note, I found that "cygpath -l -w <path>" does not work on > > my Win2k SP2 system, returning the same garbage (hex 20 FB 22 0a) > > regardless of the path. Anyone else have that problem? > > Well, after further reading of the code and experimenting I've determined > two things: > 1) the '-l' option of cygpath works in the cvs HEAD, and > 2) it does exactly what we need (thanks, Corinna). > > So we can use $(cygpath -u $(cygpath -l -w "$WINETC/$WFILE")) in the > script. This would require people to upgrade to the new cygpath (which > they would have to anyway, if they were to use the option we proposed), > which means that this script can not be released before the next cygwin, > but that is probably fine. New version and diff attached. > Igor > P.S. I'm racking my brain trying to figure out why -l didn't work for me > in version 1.21 of cygpath, but did in version 1.22. As far as I could > see, the only changes to cygpath were some added newlines... Whoops, forgot to quote the strings. Better correct it. New version attached. As for the '-l' in 1.21 issue, there were changes to newlib which have probably fixed some string bug that caused this. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. -- SC sig file
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