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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 22:50:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Sylvain=20Petreolle?= <spetreolle AT yahoo DOT fr>
Subject: RE: Odd mount and path problem
To: "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>,
"Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy AT healthlanguage DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
In-Reply-To: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D767B226A@wilber.adroit.com>
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>  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. 
If you look at his mount, it doesn't have the /cygdrive/c mount point.
so he won't have acces to /cygdrive/c and a program configured to look
in all dos drives won't find a file located on C: drive.

just my 2 cents.

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