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Date:	Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:21:11 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000)
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On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:05:41PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
>>There is no reaon why just copying the dll and a program shouldn't
>>work.  The program just has to be aware enough to set its own defaults.
>>Cygwin *is* designed to work fine in such an environment.
>
>Without any mount table at all?

Yes.

>How does it know where / is?

There isn't one.  You have to reference everything via /cygdrive.

cgf

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