Cygwin /tmp\foo behaviour

[Chris Faylor]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 06:58:39AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
>> He was testing something by typing a command in bash.  That is what I
>> meant.  That is why I mentioned "bash" and then talked about "gcc".  I
>> was trying to clarify the fact that Trevor's attempt to test the problem
>> by using a 'ld' command in bash was unrelated to the problem in gcc.
>
>I was suggesting to test by typing /tmp\c00017569.base in bash and it will
>return /tmpc00017569.base.  This was to show that /tmp\c00017569.base
>was not same as /tmp/c00017569.base.

If you are going to try to show the difference then have somebody type:

/tmp\\c00017569.base
    ^^
  two backslashes

Otherwise, the backslash is eaten by bash before any program sees it.

cgf