Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/04/19/23:27:43
>>Also, the semantics and output of "which", "ls", and "cp"
>>have changed too in my opinion, not the least of which is the
>>fau root directory and all the cygnus stuff being in
>>"/usr/local/bin" which is not a real directory on my machine.
>>
>
> The cygnus stuff goes into c:\cygwin\bin aka /usr/bin, not
> /usr/local/bin. Are you sure you installed Cygwin via setup.exe, not
> from some other site?
I'm curious to know exactly how OLD is the version of cygwin that
"worked" for you, Barry? I mean, the 'mount' convention has been around
since StoneHenge or longer -- that is, using a mount table to create a
mapping between multi-rooted windows paths (A:\this, C:\that) and a
single-rooted unixlike path structure (/ == root, but /cygdrive/a/this =
A:\this, etc. Note that /cygdrive/X/ = X:\ is handled automagically by
cygwin -- and the old mechanism (//X/ = X:\) doesn't work anymore
because it's too similar to the way you access remote windows shares
(//computer/share/file : what if you have a computer named 'X'?)
> As for the tools, by and large they all support d:\foo syntax as well -
> but remember, if you run them within bash, the \ becomes an escape
> character, so you need d:\\foo for the tool to see the backslash.
Although those programs that use ':' as a delimiter in their filespec
arguments may be a little confused -- but most of the tools I am talking
about are fairly new compared to stonehenge, so I doubt they 'broke' on
your system; your ancient installation just didn't HAVE an scp program...
scp A:\\boblocal remotecomp:fred
scp MAY be confused by this:
1) copy file /boblocal on computer 'A' to file ~/fred on computer
'remotecomp'? scp can't do 3rd party transfers.
2) copy local file boblocal on local disk A:\ to file ~/fred on
computer remotecomp? Sure, no problem...
I'm not sure which interpretation scp will use.
Oh -- and one more tip: In windows (cmd.exe/command.com, etc) the
following is a perfectly valid pathspec:
A:/fred/george
I've gotten into the habit of always using forward slashes -- in both
command.com and in bash, so I don't have to worry about the 'oh yeah in
bash you need to double up the backslashes' problem.
--Chuck
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