From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:30:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cygwin: Convert paths for html help from posix to windows
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901221829180.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7veiyv6ynm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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