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On May 27 07:49, Erich Dollansky wrote:
I noticed a strange problem. I tried to run 'cmp' from a DOS box but it could not find the file.
cmp d:\Data\file1 e:file2
Actually we don't expect this to work. The DOS notion of a drive relative
I did not know that this works when I start the program from a DOS box.working directory isn't supported by Cygwin. You should rather use POSIX paths anyway (cmp /cygdrive/d/Data/file1 /cygdrive/e/file2).
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