From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Dec 14 16:52:45 2005
Subject: Re: wav error
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
Cc: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>, maintainers@octave.org
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:52:26 -0500

On 14-Dec-2005, Bill Denney wrote:

| Something just occurred to me.  As far as I know, the c: drive is always 
| put into /cygdrive/c/ in cygwin.  Would it be feasible to always translate 
| "<alpha>:\" at the beginning of a filename into "/cygdrive/<alpha>/"? 
| This would be a bit of a hack, but it would help many windows users out.

I don't think Octave (and every application) should have to deal with
details like this.  If you want to have this kind of magic translation
happen, then isn't the place for that the Cygwin code that handles
files?  I suspect there is a reason that they have not already done
this.

jwe