Subject: Re: Windows can edit cygwin-files?
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: "Fred Rathke" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "news: cygwin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:13:31 +0200

Hallo Fred,

> thanks for your answer.
>     Fred> Hello, is it possible to edit the files generated by/under
>     Fred> cygwin with a text editor under Windows XP?

>     Eric> Of course -- they're just files.

> But I heard that cygwin uses a "directory" or "partition" that is not
> a real one, because all it stores it puts into one single file, it got
> from the operation system it is installed on.

> So for windows its one file, too big to edit really and with a format
> I dont know, but for cygwin it looks like it's own harddisk. Thats
> true? Thanks for your help.

No, that isn't Cygwin, maybe there are some other 'systems' doing
s.th. like this (BEOS?).

Install Cygwin, e.g to c:\cygwin and then look with Explorer into
c:\cygwin\usr\doc and read the docs you'll find.  More Information
at the website http://cygwin.com/ and:
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html
User-Guide: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html

Gerrit
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