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From:	"Tom Lee" <tom_lee01 AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: cygwin unix commands in windows
Date:	Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:02:55 +0000
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>From: Eric Blake <
 >
> > I noticed that if I run those commands in a machine without cygwin
> > installed.
> > it still looks for c:\cygwin
>
>Which commands look for c:\cygwin when it is not installed?  setup.exe,
>and all cygwin programs, honor your mount points.  If cygwin has never
>been installed, then no programs know to look for c:\cygwin because there
>is no cygwin installed and thus no mount points.  And until cygwin is
>installed, cygwin 'ls' will not work.

that is not true.

If I copy ls.exe and related cygwin dll over a machine with no cygwin 
installed,
"ls /" will list all files under c:/ , not c:/cygwin. I mistakely thought it 
will list c:/cygwin.

that is good to know. thanks.

tom

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