Re: [Mingw-users] MSYS Path to Windows Path

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Keith Marshall <kei...@us...>:

> On Thursday 15 June 2006 11:56 am, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Quoting Jeremy Bettis <je...@de...>:
>> > On Wed, June 14, 2006 7:23 pm, Brendon Costa wrote:
>> >> I was wondering if there is an existing way to convert a MSYS
>> >> path/filename into a windows path/filename?
>> >
>> > Since MSYS will rewrite the filenames when it passes them to non-msys
>> > programs, you can create a tiny little program that is not an msys
>> > program and pass the filenames to it.
>> >
>> > [program code snipped]...
>>
>> You don't have to get that fancy.  All you need is:
>>
>> cmd //c echo /foo
>
> Nice trick, Earnie.  I'll be sure to include it in the MinGWiki HOWTO I
> plan to write.
>
> On Thursday 15 June 2006 12:01 pm, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Quoting Brendon Costa <bc...@av...>:
>> > By the way I had a quick look in the FAQ section of the Wiki and did
>> > not find any items for this. Maybe it would be worth adding this as a
>> > FAQ (Though not sure how "Frequent" this question would be)?
>>
>> ...  As for frequency, you would be the first in a few years (maybe I
>> exagerate a bit) to ask; it certainly isn't frequent.
>
> Hmm.  I can recall three or four separate instances, within the past
> eighteen months or so, that I've answered this very question.  The most
> memorable was at the time when I wrote the MSYS_AC_CANONICAL_PATH macro,
> for use in the autoconfiscated man package.  In that situation, I don't
> think the `cmd //c echo /foo' trick would have been suitable, but that
> doesn't make it any less useful, nevertheless.
>

I couldn't really remember and there was a point in time when I just 
deleted the list mail without reading it.  That is why I said that I 
was probably exagerating.

> I do think some sort of MinGWiki write up is justified; I'll attend to
> it, when I can find the time.
>

Time, now there's a commodity worth investing in. ;)  Too bad I can't 
trade for more of it. LOL.

Earnie Boyd

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