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Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:48:38 -0700
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According to Thorsten Kampe on 2/10/2009 2:01 AM:
>> 	For that matter, how would a windows .bat file find the
>> 'mount.exe' binary if the .bat file doesn't know 'cygdrive path'?
> 
> Mount is not a Cygwin application (meaning it doesn't have to know where 
> cygwin1.dll is). So the bat file simply has to specify the path to 
> mount.exe.

Wrong.  Mount _is_ a cygwin app.  But provided that /bin/mount and
/bin/cygwin1.dll are installed in the same directory (which they should
be), finding mount means you have found cygwin1.dll and thus have found /.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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