From:	mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject:	Re: Newbie Questions / Win 95
17 Jun 1998 02:37:00 -0700 :
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Hi Mike,

[...]
>
>1) What's the use for the "mount" command?  Why is it needed?

Excerpt from the Linux man page for mount:

       All  files accessible in a Unix system are arranged in one
       big tree, the file hierarchy, rooted at  /.   These  files
       can  be spread out over several devices. The mount command
       serves to attach the file system found on some  device  to
       the  big file tree. Conversely, the umount(8) command will
       detach it again.

Using the Cygnus Unix layer a similar behaviour is emulated; on Windows
systems you have to replace "devices" with "partitions".
So can use mount to build this "big file tree" with all your available
partitions or just a few of them. So you never change drive, as you do
on Windows, but you only change directory then.
Besides that, for the Cygnus mount command, there is one very important
switch - "-b" to mount the partition in binary mode. This affects all
file read and write operations and it also affects the format, in which
all your "text" files have to be, i.e. Unix file format, not DOS file
format especially regarding line breaks.

>
>2) What's the name of the bash file that's executed when you first start up a
>bash window?  What directory does it go into?  I'd like to put in a file with
>some aliases, like my Solaris box's ~/.cshrc.  Where is the bash FAQ file so
>I don't have to ask simple questions again?

Don't know for the FAQ, but you can create a .bashrc in a directory,
where the env var $HOME points to.

>
>3) After installing Cygnus my Windows 95 boot sequence hangs for about 30
>seconds just before the user screen appears (i.e. a black screen after the
>big splash panel but before the screen with the "Start" button on it).
>What's it waiting for?

Are you sure this is caused by the Cygnus package ?
Never heard of a behaviour like this.

>
>Thanks.
>
>	Mike

Bye.
Michael.
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