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From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: gnu-win32 without registry entries?
16 Oct 1998 11:44:56 -0700 :
Message-ID: <19981016005023.26678.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1e.yahoomail.com>
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To: Enoch Wu <wue AT eskimo DOT com>, john_r_velman AT mail DOT hac DOT com,
gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Since I've stated this before, I'll third it.  As to how to find
/etc/fstab use an environment variable called CYGROOT.  If CYGROOT
doesn't exist then it must be c:/etc/fstab.

---Enoch Wu <wue AT eskimo DOT com> wrote:
>
> 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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