Subject: Re: Like-unix tree directories
From: [email-masked] (Earnie Boyd)

18 Jul 1998 08:39:42 -0700
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---CRETEL Dominique <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> Hi Earnie,
> 
> Thanks for your very interesting answer.
> 
> Excuse me, but my english is poor enough to not understand the word
> "delima".

Well, mine's not very good either, obviously.  That should have been
spelled dilemma and means, quoting Webster, a choice between
unfavorable alternatives.

Or in other words, you have to make a choice between:

1) Modifying the PATH variable for every package that has it's own
bin/ directory.

2) Creating standard UNIX directories and moving everything there.

3) Using the mount command and create logical directories to physical
directories and taking the chance of the non-cygwin programs
complaining.  For this option you would still need to modify the DOS
PATH variable for every package.  Also this limits the /usr/local/bin
to just one package.

All of these have equally unfavorable negatives, but, you have to
choose between one of them.

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