Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Fri, 9 May 2003 12:36:20 +0100
From:	John <jfm AT reiteration DOT net>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: cygwin and windows registry
Message-ID:	<20030509113620.GB55519@reiteration.net>
References:	<3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDAF7 AT EX-LONDON>
Mime-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDAF7@EX-LONDON>
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.4i

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:18:48PM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote:
> if just want the bare essentials (no unixlike environment) and you realy
> dont want it in the registry then you can refer to everything by
> /cygpath/${driveletter}
> (i use rsync on 2 servers this way. i just have them and cygwin1.dll in
> path. and use absolute paths to run it and specify its conf file and use
> absolute paths in the rsyncd.conf file)
> It takes some thinking about but its doable.
> However if you do this, dont expect to get much (if any) support from this
> list.
> 
Thanks for the tip. What i wanted to do was to run procmail and mutt.
The reason I'd like it not to interfere with the registry is that i'm
not the Admin and the alternative is to use Outlook
-- 
John - jfm AT reiteration DOT net - http://www.reiteration.net/~jfm
For PGP public key finger jfm AT reiteration DOT net or see webpage

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -