Re: specifying Windows filenames

[Harald Joerg]

jasonr (Jason Rumney) @  f2s.com writes:

> Harald Joerg <haj@oook.m.uunet.de> writes:
>
>> >     M-x shell-command-on-region RET perl H:/bin/command.pl RET
>> 
>> That's the same method I thought about in the first moment, but it
>> shouldn't work.  Gustaf says his Perl is cygwin's, so you'd have to use
>> cygwin notation:
>
> Cygwin understands Windows notation as input, it just doesn't produce
> it as output.

Ooops!  Thanks for correcting that.

Sorry, I really should have checked this before.  I've been fooled by
the fact that cygwin _Emacs_ does not accept Windows notation.

Hmmm... what's the reason behind this Emacs behaviour?  unixish
assumptions in a built-in function (expand-file-name)?
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Cheers,
haj