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Old 05-09-2009
Suggestion: Cygwin, other Lin-in-Win subforums to this one

Seems like it would at least make asking questions and getting answers a little easier. There are certainly enough posts pertaining to Cygwin here.

I suppose there are four ways one could go about it:

1. Keep the main part of the forum for Cygwin and DOS and create one subtopic forum for the other Linux-in-Windows software ;
2. Keep the main part of the forum strictly MS and create one subforum area for Cygwin and one for the "others" (similarly to how it's done in the Distributions forum area), making three in all, counting the original main one;
3. Keep the main part of the forum strictly DOS/Command Prompt and "branch off" all the Linux-in-Windows solutions by name, which would leave one with at least four from which to choose where to post their question or issue;
4. Make no changes Smilie .

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File::Spec::Cygwin(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   File::Spec::Cygwin(3pm)

NAME
File::Spec::Cygwin - methods for Cygwin file specs SYNOPSIS
require File::Spec::Cygwin; # Done internally by File::Spec if needed DESCRIPTION
See File::Spec and File::Spec::Unix. This package overrides the implementation of these methods, not the semantics. This module is still in beta. Cygwin-knowledgeable folks are invited to offer patches and suggestions. canonpath Any "" (backslashes) are converted to "/" (forward slashes), and then File::Spec::Unix canonpath() is called on the result. file_name_is_absolute True is returned if the file name begins with "drive_letter:", and if not, File::Spec::Unix file_name_is_absolute() is called. tmpdir (override) Returns a string representation of the first existing directory from the following list: $ENV{TMPDIR} /tmp $ENV{'TMP'} $ENV{'TEMP'} C:/temp Since Perl 5.8.0, if running under taint mode, and if the environment variables are tainted, they are not used. case_tolerant Override Unix. Cygwin case-tolerance depends on managed mount settings and as with MsWin32 on GetVolumeInformation() $ouFsFlags == FS_CASE_SENSITIVE, indicating the case significance when comparing file specifications. Default: 1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2004,2007 by the Perl 5 Porters. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2010-09-20 File::Spec::Cygwin(3pm)