I tracked a small install of bash and some other cygwin stuff and it seemed to 
stay well behaved and contained. In fact, I was able to portable-ize it to 
verify I captured everything. Hopefully, there won't be too many conflicts with 
other stuff that embeds the cygwin dll.

So, this opens up another whole world. ;)  For those that use cygwin - What is 
the best way to handle windows' use of spaces in names? 'dir' produces a list 
with spaces escaped (\). 'ls' does not - spaces are spaces. I would've expected 
the opposite. Permissions are funny too - what does x mean in windows? Some 
files have it and others don't, yet both execute fine. Also, some groups have 
?????? for a name:

-rwx------+   1 Administrators ????????      119538 May  1 18:39 doc1.pdf
----------+   1 Skip           None         3833272 Jun 17 15:54 my.log

Is there any meaning to this in windows like there is in Unix? What's the best 
set of rules to follow when using your unix mind under cygwin with windows' 
naming styles? ;) Something that will prevent problems in shell scripts and 
commands in general, and make life nice...

TIA,
-Skip

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