LYNX-DEV Why use `cp' and `rm' when _WINDOWS defined?

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I know the developers are all sitting on their hands with nothing 
special to do with their time, so I thought up something for them
to add to lynx:

When _WINDOWS is defined src/GlobalDefs.h cleverly defines paths
to things like `cp', `rm', etc.  Which is fine, if all users have
Dos versions of these programs.  You run into a little trouble
when the user has the cygwin system mounted, and things like
cp.exe and rm.exe, which assume Unix file names, are on the Windows
PATH.  Do you know what happens when Windows' lynx calls `cp.exe',
giving it a Windows file path, (well, not, quite,
`C:\windows\temp/897532.html' isn't exactly what the developers
mean when DOSPATH is defined in lynx)?  (Sorry for the nested 
question.)