Why hasn't the patch from this message: http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-nt/200008/msg00004.html been applied yet? It fixes the problem with using gnuclient under cygwin from the windows explorer. Specifically, it fixes the path problems. IE before the patch, I would see it looking for a file name of: //E\htdocs\file3.php which doesn't exist as a path name. However, with this patch, it translates it to /htdocs/file3.php which is correct! Here's the patch again (please note, this is NOT my patch! It's Jon Schewe's patch.): --- lib-src/gnuclient.c.orig Fri Oct 9 15:58:40 1998 +++ lib-src/gnuclient.c Tue Aug 1 09:03:42 2000 ＠＠ -42,6 +42,10 ＠＠ static char rcsid [] = "!Header: gnuclient.c,v 2.2 95/12/12 01:39:21 wing nene !"; #endif +#ifdef CYGWIN +extern void cygwin_conv_to_posix_path(const char *path, char *posix_path); +#endif + #include "gnuserv.h" #include "getopt.h" ＠＠ -175,35 +179,26 ＠＠ /* fullpath - returned full pathname */ /* filename - filename to expand */ { +#ifdef CYGWIN + char cygwinFilename[MAXPATHLEN+1]; +#endif + int len; - fullpath[0] = '\0'; +#ifdef CYGWIN + /* + If we're in cygwin, just convert it and let the unix stuff handle it. + */ + cygwin_conv_to_posix_path(filename, cygwinFilename); + filename = cygwinFilename; +#endif + if (filename[0] && filename[0] == '/') { /* Absolute (unix-style) pathname. Do nothing */ strcat (fullpath, filename); } -#ifdef CYGWIN - else if (filename[0] && filename[0] == '\\' && - filename[1] && filename[1] == '\\') - { - /* This path includes the server name (something like - "\\server\path"), so we assume it's absolute. Do nothing to - it. */ - strcat (fullpath, filename); - } - else if (filename[0] && - filename[1] && filename[1] == ':' && - filename[2] && filename[2] == '\\') - { - /* Absolute pathname with drive letter. Convert "<drive>:" - to "//<drive>/". */ - strcat (fullpath, "//"); - strncat (fullpath, filename, 1); - strcat (fullpath, &filename[2]); - } -#endif else { /* Assume relative Unix style path. Get the current directory -- Jeff Stuart jstuart(a)neo.rr.com