Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/05/24/23:23:20
I wanted to give a heads up to everyone that the //c method
for accessing drives will finally be removed in Cygwin 1.3.3.
We've been threatening to do this for more than a year and
the time has finally come.
This means that if you do something like:
ls //c/foo
it will be interpreted as "list directory 'foo' on server 'c'".
So, if you want to access files on a MS-DOS device, use the /cygdrive
method of accessing the drive:
ls /cygdrive/c/foo
But you all knew about this already, right?
If this is too cumbersome, you can change /cygdrive to whatever
you want. Many people seem to like to have the drives accessible
as a directory so that c: == /c . The easiest way to default to
this behavior is to do this:
mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /
Or conversely, if you think that /cygdrive is too short and too
hard to remember, you could also do something like:
mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /bobs-disk-devices
Then, you can access drives as:
ls /bobs-disk-devices/c/foo
Note that the default "mount mode" for these devices remains as "text
mounts". If you want to change the mount mode to be "binmode', you
can do this:
mount -b -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /
For a more advanced description on what these options do, check out
the cygwin documentation at http://www.cygwin.com/ .
cgf
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