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Date:	Tue, 02 Jan 2001 13:08:54 -0800
From:	Michael Eager <eager AT eagercon DOT com>
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Subject:	Installing Cygwin (was Re: why not use root as root?)

I've had beta versions of Cygwin installed.  When I installed
Cygwin 1.1.x, I found that I was very confused about where the
files really were.  Under Cygwin, pwd and ls use paths relative
to C:/cygwin on the boot disk.  Windows uses paths based on the
root.  I had multiple /bin directories which were searched by
Cygwin and Windows differently.  As others have mentioned, 
programs not under Cygwin (and programs run under Cygwin betas)
install in C:/bin and C:/lib, so it was not clear where the 
current versions were hiding.

My solution is to allocate a partition to Cygwin.  Install 
Cygwin into this partition at the root.  Ignore the warning
message that the setup program generates.  The result is that
/ under Cygwin maps directly to G:\ (my Cygwin partition), 
/bin and /lib map to G:\bin and G:\lib.  There is no need to
have different paths to programs under Windows and Cygwin, 
only (occasionally) to make the partition letter explicit.

My confusion level is much lower.  

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Michael Eager	 Eager Consulting     eager AT eagercon DOT com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306  650-325-8077

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