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Prakash Dhavali wrote: > I want / to point to the current drive letter by default. If this is really the behavior you are looking for then it is my suggestion that you look at some other tool kits that are out there. There are many versions of bash, ls, etc. that merely sit on top of DOS/Win32 and perform no "real" Unix runtime emulation. Cygwin on the other hand is specifically designed to emulate Unix as closely as possible, so closely in fact that most Unix source code will actually compile and run without changes. This in and of itself is an amazing feat that should be duly recognized as "magic" (hats off folks!). I often port software between a variety of Unix systems that have at least as much difficulty in portability if not more than Cygwin, which successfully hides most if not all the non POSIX quirks of the Microsoft operating system world. I personally look forward to the day when Cygwin has full posix threading support too. -- Steve Coleman <Steve DOT Coleman AT jhuapl DOT edu> http://www.jhuapl.edu/ High Performance, fault tolerant, distributed, real-time computing <<-------->> Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory <<--------->> Balt:443-778-6330 Fax:443-778-5597 Wash:240-228-6330 Fax:240-228-5597 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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