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Date:	Tue, 24 May 2005 16:36:13 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: to cygdrive, or to not cygdrive!
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On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 08:19:19PM +0000, J. David Boyd wrote:
>I have two windows xp pro machines.
>
>On one machine, my desktop at work, I can use a command line like:
>cd /c/xfer
>without needing cygdrive.
>
>On my laptop at home, I have to type in
>cd /cygdrive/c/xfer
>
>I don't remember ever changing anything to allow my desktop to operate the 
>way it does.

And, yet, you did.  /cygdrive is (obviously?) the default.

>Any clues from anyone?  I would like my laptop to work the same way...

"man mount" should be pretty useful in determining how to --change-[the]cygdrive-prefix .

cgf

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