[MinGW-notify] [ mingw-Bugs-3600826 ] broken path transformation pattern for ghostscript

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Bugs item #3600826, was opened at 2013-01-14 10:41
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Category: MSYS
Group: Known bugs
>Status: Pending
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
>Assigned to: Cesar Strauss (cstrauss)
Summary: broken path transformation pattern for ghostscript

Initial Comment:
ghostscript accept arguments like:

gswin32.exe  -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dAutoRotatePages=/None

the /prepress and /None will be treated as a path and be transformed in DOS path


Please implement some mechanism to disable path transformation temporary.

PS: Now i'm using my wrapper to transform the "path" back into /prepress and something like that, it's ugly.

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>Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2013-01-14 17:59

Message:
Does the use of two slashes suffice?

gswin32.exe -d=PDFSETTINGS=//prepress -dAutoRotatePages=//None

MSYS when seeing // will remove one and not convert to a Windows path but
it this was created for Windows style "switch" attributes as in dir //X but
it may work for this instance as well.

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