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From: Harald Joerg <haj@oook.m.uunet.de>
Subject: Re: specifying Windows filenames
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:47:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kvel1jkjce.fsf@mcp0147c.mch.fsc.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uwufcuezj.fsf@jasonrumney.net

jasonr (Jason Rumney) @  f2s.com writes:

> Harald Joerg <haj@oook.m.uunet.de> writes:
>
>> >     M-x shell-command-on-region RET perl H:/bin/command.pl RET
>> 
>> That's the same method I thought about in the first moment, but it
>> shouldn't work.  Gustaf says his Perl is cygwin's, so you'd have to use
>> cygwin notation:
>
> Cygwin understands Windows notation as input, it just doesn't produce
> it as output.

Ooops!  Thanks for correcting that.

Sorry, I really should have checked this before.  I've been fooled by
the fact that cygwin _Emacs_ does not accept Windows notation.

Hmmm... what's the reason behind this Emacs behaviour?  unixish
assumptions in a built-in function (expand-file-name)?
-- 
Cheers,
haj

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-24  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-23 14:57 specifying Windows filenames Gustaf Erikson
2003-06-23 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.8475.1056385357.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-23 19:50   ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-24  7:07   ` Harald Joerg
2003-06-24  7:11     ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-24  7:47       ` Harald Joerg [this message]
2003-06-24 14:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-24 16:24         ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-25  7:55           ` Harald Joerg
2003-06-24  8:03 ` [solved] " Gustaf Erikson

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