On 6/23/2011 10:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I don't know what the difference in your settings is, though. Something > with readline, maybe.
Despite the APPEARANCE (*) of invoking cygpath from within a cygwin shell, it seems the OP is actually invoking cygpath directly from a regular cmd.exe console: On my machine, from cmd.exe: C:\cygwin\bin>cygpath -u \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile On my machine, from bash.exe: $ cygpath -u \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile /c/DAEMON1anrdaemon.profile (*) [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -u \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ oh, look, a unix-style command prompt, aka $PS1... -- Chuck