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

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Am 11.03.2010, 14:23 Uhr, schrieb Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>:

> 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,

Why does cd not work then, when it has "traditionally been handled" by  
mintlib? Version seems not to be the cause.

> 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

I think MiNT does the translation (not sure).

> 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.

That's why the cd u: should be in your mint.cnf.

> 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"?

When I call

  Dsetdrv('c' - 'a');

instead of

  Dsetdrv('u' - 'a');

in xaloader and run this with /c/mint... all works, no difference.

The /c/... gets translated to u:\c\...

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

None of them work.

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

So you want to handicap the porting?

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Helmut Karlowski