Re: LYNX-DEV Why use `cp' and `rm' when _WINDOWS defined?

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> I know the developers are all sitting on their hands with nothing  
> special to do with their time, so I thought up something for them 
> to add to lynx: 
>  
> When _WINDOWS is defined src/GlobalDefs.h cleverly defines paths 
> to things like `cp', `rm', etc.  Which is fine, if all users have 
> Dos versions of these programs.  You run into a little trouble 
> when the user has the cygwin system mounted, and things like 
> cp.exe and rm.exe, which assume Unix file names, are on the Windows 
> PATH.  Do you know what happens when Windows' lynx calls `cp.exe', 
> giving it a Windows file path, (well, not, quite, 
> `C:\windows\temp/897532.html' isn't exactly what the developers 
> mean when DOSPATH is defined in lynx)?  (Sorry for the nested  
> question.) 
that works for some libraries but not others (it's best to process the
name into a single format; however we've got a lot of inline code devoted
to hacking on pathnames - that should be restructured so it's done in fewer
places)

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