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On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 09:31:10AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> I am using the 19990922 snapshot and I noticed that running the >> pwd command inside the bash I got the following outputs: >> >> / if I am on the C: drive >> /cygdrive/d if I am on the D: drive >> /cygdrive/e if I am on the E: drive > >BTW, I'm thinking that the cygdrive text is stored in the registry and could be >changed to what you want. I can't verify that at this time but you could look >using RegEdit. The /cygdrive/ was added to change the // due to problems with >Win32 thinking it was referencing a network drive. It could have just as well >have been made an error if the drive isn't mounted rather than defaulting to >anything at all. If you use the mount.exe that comes with the snapshot (read the instructions at the top of the download web page) then you can change the /cygdrive to something else using mount. I always *strongly* discourage people from mucking with the registry when there are standard programs available to provide this. -Chris Faylor -Cygwin Manager -Cygnus Solutions -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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