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From:	"Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To:	<kumarchi AT attbi DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: cygwin unix path is not longer recognized
Date:	Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:42:31 -0000
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kumarchi AT attbi DOT com wrote:
> folks:
> I installed octave for windows. But this installation somehow mangled
> my cygwin (latest feb 9, 2003 )
> 
> cygwin no longer recognizes unix type paths
> I cannot say
> /bin/ls or /cygdrive/d/bin/ls
> 
> It has to be
> d:/cygwin/bin/ls
> 
> 
> How can restore my unix paths?

Sounds like the Octave installer rewrote your mount table.

Run:
mount -f -s -b "M:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
mount -f -s -b "M:/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
mount -f -s -b "M:/cygwin" "/"

adapting paths as necessary for your installation.

Of course, octave probably won't work after doing that...


Max.


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