Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Cross Platform Path issues

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:28:11AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >  My thought is that instead of trying to go about effecting changes 
> > in two very large pieces of software(Windows,Cygwin) (one which we have 
> > much more influence over than the other (i.i.e.. we have 000000 control 
> > over Microsoft, and (0 > control < 1) over cygwin) we can try to get arch 
> > to work on both systems.
> 
> Sure, and reducing the length of path needed will do that. Attempting to
> thunk around by path tricks won't.

Actually it demonstrably will, since that's exactly how vfat works.

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