[Cook] dos-path / un-dos-path is anachronistic

[Chuck_Eaker at mapinfo.com]

Some of us need to pass dosified paths to Win32 and .NET tools such as the
compilers and Visual Studios. It turns out, though, at least in my case,
that they have to go through the Linux shell on the machine that cook is
running on, then through the shell of the remote Win32 machine. This means
that every backslash in a dos path has to be replaced with four backslashes
by cook before the command in which it appears is executed. So, don't mess
with it.

-Chuck Eaker



                                                                           
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>From the users guide:

 [dos-path //c/temp] results in   c:\temp

Presumable this is for compatibility with Cygwin.

But Cygwin doesn't do it that way anymore.

On recent versions, C:\temp becomes /cygdrive/c/temp

And there is a utility (cygpath) which does that conversion for you.

Perhaps cook's dos-path / un-dos-path commands should simply call
cygpath ??


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