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From: jeff DOT paulsen AT poorman-douglas DOT com (Jeff Paulsen)
Subject: RE: Xemacs v21 path bug
23 Jun 1998 18:07:12 -0700 :
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To: "'Matthew Patton'" <matthew DOT patton AT ra DOT pae DOT osd DOT mil>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Patton [mailto:matthew DOT patton AT ra DOT pae DOT osd DOT mil]
> Subject: Xemacs v21 path bug
> 
> I majorly like this beta port of emacs. However, it doesn't understand
> cygnus paths like the following: //d/foo/bar. I'm forced to 
> make symlinks
> in the cygnus tree to pick up drives external to it. In my 
> case d:\cygnus = / (root).

I used a combination of mount and ln -s to manage. I found that mounting
c:\ as / and d:\ as /mnt/d/ was a good start, and I have my /etc/ and
/home/ and /usr/ directories on d, so I just symlinked them in. /bin/ is
on c:\, for reasons that seemed good at the time.

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Jeff Paulsen
jeff DOT paulsen AT poorman-douglas DOT com 
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