Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com X-Authentication-Warning: tardis.tardis.ed.ac.uk: keith owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 08:28:31 +0100 (BST) From: Keith Starsmeare Reply-To: Keith Starsmeare To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: pwd command output In-Reply-To: <19990930163110.22008.rocketmail@web129.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Earnie Boyd wrote: > BTW, I'm thinking that the cygdrive text is stored in the registry and could be > changed to what you want. I can't verify that at this time but you could look > using RegEdit. The /cygdrive/ was added to change the // due to problems with > Win32 thinking it was referencing a network drive. It could have just as well > have been made an error if the drive isn't mounted rather than defaulting to > anything at all. Why have the drives been mapped under "cygdrive" - that's quite a confusing name as it's referring to the DOS or Window's drives! Why not mount them on /dev (in the Unix style) instead? Keith -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com