Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/22/15:44:40
Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> If you don't specify a dos drive, \cygwin\bin will be relative to the
> curent dos disk drive.
> so if you are in d:, \cygwin\bin\ls.exe exists.
> after that you do a 'cd /c'. current dos drive becomes c:.
> c:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe doesn't exist and you get 'not found'.
Wow, that's something I never understood from reading the user guide or
the FAQ. Maybe I missed it, or this is just poorly documented.
Either way, thanks for the explanation, it really helps a lot.
> answer to your P.S.:
> P.S. I am not using the normal installation settings where /cygwin is
> mounted as / since I have a lot of other directories at the top of my D
>
> drive that I want to access from within cygwin
>
> all drives can be accessed by 'cd /cygdrive/x' when x is the letter of
> the dos drive. so the following mountpoints is incorrect:
> C: on /c type system (binmode)
> should be
> c: on /cygdrive/c type system (binmode)
I understand that I can always use /cygwin/c to reference c:/, but I was
looking for something a little shorter to type :-) Also, mounting C:/
on /c was an example from the user guide, so I assumed it was kosher.
It seems to work ok for me, am I getting lucky or can I reliably use a
mount point of C:/ on /c?
> does that answer all your questions ?
Yup - you've been most helpful.
Thanks again!
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