Re: Trouble with classpaths

Re: Trouble with classpaths

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:41:25 +0100
> From: LENNART BORGMAN <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> 
> I think Emacs compiled for Cygwin should understand paths like C:/some/path/to/file.txt since Cygwin understands them.

_Any_ Emacs port to Windows understands C:/some/path/to/file.txt.

Re: Trouble with classpaths

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:41:25 +0100
>>From: LENNART BORGMAN <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
>>
>>I think Emacs compiled for Cygwin should understand paths like C:/some/path/to/file.txt since Cygwin understands them.
>>    
>>
>
>_Any_ Emacs port to Windows understands C:/some/path/to/file.txt.
>  
>
Thanks. Then I must have misunderstood something that the original 
poster wrote. I have not myself used Emacs compiled for Cygwin.

Re: Trouble with classpaths

[LENNART BORGMAN]

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

> > From: LENNART BORGMAN 

> > I think Emacs compiled for Cygwin should understand paths like 
> C:/some/path/to/file.txt since Cygwin understands them.
> 
> _Any_ Emacs port to Windows understands C:/some/path/to/file.txt.
> 

I can not understand what is going on in this thread in the jde mailing list (jde@sunsite.dk). What is the case really?

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Hi.

Ed Mooney wrote:
> Cygwin emacs does not understand DOS paths. java/javac do not understand
> non-DOS paths. Once again, see the thread beginning here:
> 
>     http://www.mail-archive.com/jde@sunsite.dk/msg08289.html

Sorry, yes you are right. However, Cygwin Xemacs does understand DOS
paths, and I apologise, as it was the failure to distinguish between the
two that led to my comment.

Agree about java/javac.

Regards,
Shaddy