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Re: Problems opening files from run menu
Paminu wrote:
"Christopher Faylor" <cxxx@xxx.xxx> skrev i en
meddelelse ...
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 04:38:43PM +0200, Paminu wrote:
I have a xfig file in:
c:\cygwin\home\test\test.fig
I can open this xfig file from the run menu like:
bash --login -e startxprog xfig c:/cygwin/home/test/test.fig
I also have a .dvi file in:
c:\cygwin\home\test\test.dvi
But when I type:
bash --login -e startxprog xdvi c:/cygwin/home/test/test.dvi
Nothing happens. Why is it possible to open a file like this with xfig but
not with xdvi???
How about using UNIX-like paths rather than Windows paths, that being
one the main reasons for Cygwin's existence?
bash --login -e startxprog xdvi /home/test/test.dvi
That works fine. But the problem is when I execute xdvi from emacs. Then
this gets inserted:
c:/cygwin/home/test/test.dvi
if I could just get emacs to only type /home/test/test.dvi it would work.
But I think it is wierd that xfig accepts the full path while xdvi only
accept the path excluding c:/cygwin, but maybe its a bug in xdvi.
Hm. If only there were some Cygwin utility that could do something
amazing like... I know! It could take a DOS/Windows path and turn it
into a POSIX one for Cygwin. Wouldn't that be neat? I hope someone
someday makes just such a program. Then things like emacs could use it
and the world would be right again. And if someone ever did write such
a utility, I would suggest it be called some snazzy name like 'cygpath'.
Yeah, that has quite a ring to it. Boy it will be a great day when we
have such a utility!*
* 'cygpath' already exists. :-)
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