Convert a file or path value to Cygwin form. The substitutions made are

    x: => /cygdrive/x
    X: => /cygdrive/x     (converts X to lower case)
    \ => /
    ; => :
    (space) => \(space)

These substitutions will leave unchanged a cygwin-style pathname.

Note: tocyg will usually NOT work by typing in the string because backslashes are interpreted as quoting the next character and because spaces break up the argument. Tocyg has been known to work within a Makefile if

• the entire string is in quotes
• backslashes are doubled

Example input

 tocyg 'c:\\foo\\goo hee;f:\\gee  whiz'

corresponding output:

 /cygdrive/c/foo/goo\ hee:/cygdrive/f/gee\ \ whiz