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Re: [PATCH] cygwin: Convert paths for html help from posix to windows

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 22, 2009, 17:30 UTC
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Hi,
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > OK, I don't really know if this is the right way to do it. Maybe when
> > the browser was built for cygwin this breaks? I have no clue,...
> 
> It might be simple enough to check if all it takes is to install a
> prepackaged browser from Cygwin suite and try to run it.  Doesn't Cygwin
> have small ones such as lynx (or links)?

Was it not the case that Cygwin programs could grok Windows paths, too? IIRC w3m is available, dunno about lynx.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 3 of 6 in “cygwin: Convert paths for html help from posix to windows”
  1. cygwin: Convert paths for html help from posix to windowsBjörn Steinbrink, Jan 22, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 22, 2009
  3. Johannes SchindelinJan 22, 2009
  4. Re[2]: [PATCH] cygwin: Convert paths for html help from posix to windowsSteffen Jaeckel, Jan 22, 2009
  5. Ramsay JonesJan 24, 2009
  6. Steffen JaeckelJan 26, 2009

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