cygpath and SHGetSpecialFolderPath
Igor Pechtchanski
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Wed Oct 15 14:07:00 GMT 2003
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> While reading the thread about the cygpath problem, I looked into the
> code and found that the code is using SHGetSpecialFolderLocation/
> SHGetPathFromIDList. The same output could be achieved by just calling
> SHGetSpecialFolderPath. The only problem with this function is that
> it expects IE4 to be installed. Is that a showstopper for using that
> function in cygpath? Does anybody honestly still use an IE < 4.0?
>
> Corinna
There was some discussion on this a while back, I don't recall exactly
on which list. I'll keep looking and post a link once I find it.
Igor
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