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Point taken ... a second time (smile) Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 08:50:42PM -0700, Paul Newell wrote: > >> I thought I checked /cygdrive and found them empty (though mount said >> otherwise). Given how long it took the "ls /cygdrive" to come back with >> something, I guess I might have controlC-ed out. I notice that cmd /c dir >> from the "/" gives me what I would expect, but cmd /c dir \cygdrive doesn't >> show me the c and f drive, so I just got confused as I wasn't looking the >> right way. As in your paragraph about "still missing the point" >> > > Yep. Think about it. I suggested that you NOT to use cmd and you used > cmd. I suggested that you not to use \ and you used \. > > "dir" is a built-in for cmd. It is not a Cygwin program and it doesn't > become aware of Cygwin conventions just because you ran it under bash. > If you want to look at the files on your C drive the cygwin command > would be > > ls /cygdrive/c > > Forget about cmd and forget about \ if you are trying to use Cygwin the way > it was designed to be used. > > cgf > > -- > 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/ > > > -- 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/
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