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Subject: Re: bash: difference between //c/ and c:/
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:19:06 -0600
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> > Step `b' should be obsoleted by --change-cygdrive, I have to test
> > that.
>
> No. In fact it recreates the ability to use //c again but
> this time without the need of a special path handling in
> Cygwin to deal with //<drive-letter>. So we can drop that
> in Cygwin, finally.

For me, the --change-cygdrive (I had to also remove the user-level cygdrive
as it was overriding the system-level setting) allowed /<drive-letter>.
Prior to that change, I had to have actual mounts to support
/<drive-letter>...


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