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From:	"Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>
To:	"'Sylvain Petreolle'" <spetreolle AT yahoo DOT fr>,
	"Larry V. Streepy, Jr."
	<streepy AT healthlanguage DOT com>
Cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	RE: Odd mount and path problem
Date:	Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:32:11 -0400
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> From: Sylvain Petreolle [mailto:spetreolle AT yahoo DOT fr]
> Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem
> > Also, mounting C:/ on /c was an example from the user guide, so I
> assumed it was kosher.
 It is.
> Seems that the user guide is outdated for this one. Could you 
> say where
> it lives in the guide in order to update it ?
> > It seems to work ok for me, am I getting lucky or can I reliably use
> > a 
> > mount point of C:/ on /c?
   You can (and should) reliably use it.
> Will function for some, but recent programs normally look for
> /cygdrive/x and could fail.
 Sorry, but this is nonsense.
 If C:/ is mounted as /c  then both /c and /cygdrive/c will both "work", but
may have different text/binary characteristics.
 In any case mounting /c has no affect on what /cygdrive/c does.

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