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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:43:30 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
CC: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to: <20000503171211.3492.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com> (message from
Earnie Boyd on Wed, 3 May 2000 10:12:11 -0700 (PDT))
Subject: Re: /cygdrive/windows ?
References: <20000503171211 DOT 3492 DOT qmail AT web117 DOT yahoomail DOT com>

> I get it now, sorry.  Hmm...  How about an internal mapping of /boot for the
> SystemDrive, /boot/windir for the windows path?  Since the System and System32
> directories always fall as subdirectories of /boot/windir this wouldn't have to
> be mapped.  So, for example, if you have your WINNT system on the C: drive then
> /boot would be mapped to C:/ and /boot/windir would map to C:/WINNT.

If Windows is installed to a shared network drive, windir is local and
sysdir is shared.  I think.  Otherwise, I can't think of why Win32 has
separate calls for those two directories.

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