[m-rev.] for review: documentation updates and fixes for MSVC port

[Paul Bone]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 10:54:50PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> 
> >>Index: README.MS-VisualC
> >>===================================================================
> >>RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/README.MS-VisualC,v
> >>retrieving revision 1.8
> >>diff -u -r1.8 README.MS-VisualC
> >>--- README.MS-VisualC	7 Mar 2006 06:40:39 -0000	1.8
> >>+++ README.MS-VisualC	7 Nov 2011 04:06:56 -0000
> >
> >>+
> >>+The `--with-msvcrt' flag causes executables built with this install of Mercury
> >>+to be linked with the MS Visual C runtime, instead of the standard libC
> >>+runtime.
> >>+
> >>+On Cygwin, configure and mmake will do translation of Unix style paths, so you
> >>+may specify the installation directory using either a Unix- or Window-style
> >>+path.  On MSYS, you must use a Window-style path.
> >>
> >
> >Maybe this is a dumb question from a non-windows guy.  But is the only
> >difference the direction of the slashes?  ie \ for windows and / for Unix?  Do
> >the unix style paths on a windows system include the drive letter?
> 
> Both Cygwin and MSYS map the driver letter onto their view of the
> file systems,  For MSYS, c: is simpley /c, for Cygwin it is
> /cygdrive/c.
> 

Should this then say that a unix style path encodes the driver letter in this
way?

Thanks.

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