Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/04/19/15:59:09
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:39:40PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:01:44PM -0400, Patricia J. Hawkins wrote:
>>>>>>> "BD" == Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net> writes:
>>BD> My guess would be that you're doing the same thing as the poster in this
>>BD> thread: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00353.html>.
>>
>>OK, here's what I find in that message:
>>
>>| On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
>>| ....
>>| > So, you're changing the system-wide cygdrive prefix but since you have a
>>| > user-defined cygdrive prefix it is taking precedent. I believe this was
>>| > a recent change which is why you are seeing it now.
>>|
>>| and Pavel Toskov said:
>>|
>>| PT> Yes! There was a change in October 2004 which allowed the system prefix to
>>| PT> be used no matter that a user prefix was specified. This is not the
>>| PT> expected behaviour and it was changed in Cygwin 1.5.14 to work as it used
>>| PT> to be in the past.
>
>There is nothing like that in that message. You apparently ignored the
>part that would actually have helped you, went on to read the rest of
>the thread when reinforced Brian's advice and then ignored the advice.
Just to make an actual English sentence out of the above:
"You apparently ignored the part that would actually have helped you,
went on to read the rest of the thread which reinforced Brian's advice,
and then ignored the advice."
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