[Mingw-users] MSys native, Windows with slashes, Windows native path notation

[Axel H. <aho...@gm...>]

Hi all,

as you have been so helpful on my commandline too short issue, here
come the next one ;-)

There seems something is going on behind the scenes in MSys bash or
wherever, if I start an application and give a path as a commandline
parameter. To mee it looks like there is some automatic/heuristic
check, if the application is a MSys application and therefore
understands MSys native notation (/c/mingw/...) or is not and
therefore needs to get a Windows path.

It looks like the Windows path will always be one with forward
slashes, which unfortunately not all apps do support (in my case
Digital Mars compiler).

Could anybody shed some light on this one?

Many thanks and best regards
Axel