From:	wue AT eskimo DOT com (Enoch Wu)
Subject:	Re: gnu-win32 without registry entries?
15 Oct 1998 13:11:33 -0700 :
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To:	john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hi all,

I second it!  We should be able to use a mount table like linux's fstab on
the C drive's root directory. How do you mount it on c:/root/b19/etc/fstab
for example, assuming the root is at c:/root/b19 ?  Perhaps the location of
fstab can be hard-coded like c:/root/etc/fstab.

Enoch

At 05:34 PM 10/13/98 -0700, john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com wrote:
>As far as I can tell, the only thing the registry entries are used for is 
>to set up the simulated mounts, with the binary text options.
>
>How much trouble would it be to do this with a mount table as per Linux, 
>instead of putting it in the registry?  
>
>One reason I ask is that I work for a big company and our IS people want 
>everyone to have standard registry entries.  It seems to me that everything 
>else I really need works without messing with the registry.
>
>Other than that, I'm really quite pleased with cyg-win/gnu-win.
>
>John Velman
>jrvelman AT mail DOT hac DOT com
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