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Re: cygwin and \ or /

From: solo turn <soloturn99_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-05-23 20:00:31 CEST

its not only cygwin, but also in windows cmd the following works:
C:\>cd "doc*/adm*"
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>

so imo, no option would be necessary i suppose.

--- Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> wrote:
> Jonathan Smith wrote:
>
> >Check an environment variable and/or command line options.
> >
> Excuse me? Have an *option* to decide whether we should display
> paths in
> the OS's native style or not? Is it just me, or is the world really
> going insane?
>
> On Windows, Subversion will use \ as the path separator for output.
> It
> will accept both \ and / on input. There will be no vote. I have
> spoken.
>
> "Hear this and tremblingly obey!"
>
> >j.
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 23 May 2003, [UTF-8] Branko ÄŒibej wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Jonathan Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Since windows has no concept of an escape character to my
> knowledge (in
> >>>Microsoft's idiot-user based paradigm, "Who could possibly
> understand such
> >>>a horribly complex thing?), and since '/' is an illegal
> character on
> >>>windows, why not accept both slashes all the time?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>We do, and we will. It's not about accepting both slashes, it's
> about
> >>_displaying_ then. We're now displaying a mix of / and \, and
> moving
> >>towards using \ exclusively. Then solo wants to cut&paste that
> output in
> >>the cygwin bash shell. Cygwin programs will, of course, accept \
> as a
> >>separator, but the paths have to be quoted to avoid shell
> escaping.
> >>
> >>Lots of Windows command-line programs won't accept /, tbough.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
>
>
>
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