Re: cygwin -> mswindows pathname conversion under cygwin perl?

The predefined variable $^O (that's a capital O) will be 'cygwin' for a
cygwin-built perl or 'MSWin32' for ActiveState perl. If you include the line

use English; 

in your script, then you can use the variable $OSNAME for the same purpose.

--Rick
--- Ben Wing <[email protected]> wrote:
> thanks ...  one more question, how do you determine if you're running cygwin
> perl or not?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Rankin" <[email protected]>
> To: "Ben Wing" <[email protected]>; "XEmacs NT List" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Andy Piper" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 7:22 PM
> Subject: Re: cygwin -> mswindows pathname conversion under cygwin perl?
> 
> 
> > Ben,
> >
> > Just use
> >
> > chomp($winPath = `cygpath -w $unixPath`);
> >
> > 'cygpath --help' will give you all the options.
> >
> > --Rick
> > --- Ben Wing <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > andy [or someone else], is there a way to convert pathnames to mswindows
> > > format
> > > in a cygwin perl script?
> > >
> > > thanks.
> > >
> > > ben
> > >
> > >
> >
> 
>