[Rd] 'cygpath -d' to fix windows paths with spaces

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This should be done internally already, e.g. in the Perl code and by the 
Rpwd.exe we use.  The problem is to anticipate everything people might 
actually try.

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Warnes, Gregory R wrote:

> 
> The cygwin 'cygpath' command can now convert arbitrary windows and unix
> paths into the short ms-dos 8.3 equivalents.  This tools might allow the
> windows build system to better deal with those messy long Windows file and
> directory names that contain spaces.
> 
> EG:
> 
> warneg at GRDGROL99X1028: src [1]$ pwd
> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/WarnesGR/My
> Documents/cygwin_home/src/gregmisc/src
> 
> warneg at GRDGROL99X1028: src [1]$ cygpath -d "`pwd`"
> c:\DOCUME~1\WarnesGR\MYDOCU~1\CYGWIN~1\src\gregmisc\src

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