From:	lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject:	Re: gnu-win32 without registry entries?
17 Oct 1998 05:21:37 -0700 :
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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

Hard coded locations would be a mistake.  Locations that assume certain 
drive paths (even c:) would also be a mistake in my view.  I don't care
much for this whole registry concept myself but I prefer it in this case
to circumvent the inane drive designations of DOS-based systems.  So while
I'd prefer a "standard" fstab file like many of you, unless there is a 
nice way to put it in its "proper" place with the rest of the distribution,
I would argue against any such change unless there was an option to choose
the rigid, file based approach or the flexible registry approach.  If these
2 options were available and were the only two, I would also argue that the
registry option should remain the default.

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At 05:57 PM 10/14/98 -0700, Enoch Wu 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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