Re: [MiNT] 'cd' does not like u:

["Jo Even Skarstein" <joska@online.no>]

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From: "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:19 PM
To: "Jo Even Skarstein" <joska@online.no>; "mint" <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] 'cd' does not like u:

> I didn't actually mean $SYSDIR but the content of /kern/sysdir. That's 
> what xaloader reads. But they both contain the same. xaloader works with 
> unix-style path as argument, I think MiNT knows that, so it should not be 
> a problem for at least a MiNT-domain-app to use it.

Converting between DOS-style and unix-style paths has traditionally been the 
left to the applications (handled by MiNTlib usually). I see no reason to 
change this. OK, we're only talking about one specific path, but why should 
this be an exception? The concept of '/' as a representation of the root fs 
doesn't translate well to GEMDOS. There is no such thing as a "root fs" in 
GEMDOS, it's represented by the drive U. Having $SYSDIR pointing to 
'/c/mint...' is IMO not correct in MiNT/GEMDOS, as a leading / means that 
the path is relative to the root of the current drive which could be any 
drive and not necessarily U.

This could just as well be the reason why xaloader works fine with this kind 
of path - have you tried to change it's working drive to e.g. C and then 
test the "unix path"?

If 'cd c:' works but 'cd u:' doesn't then I'd say cd (or MiNTlib) is broken 
and should be fixed.

> BTW: cygwin is just about to abandon the DOS-writing. But MiNT is not 
> cygwin, I know.

That's true. Cygwin's only purpose is to ease porting of unix-stuff to 
windows. So using unix-style paths makes perfect sense.

Jo Even