Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:10:53 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Scott Purcell cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c? In-Reply-To: <34385CBC5E8E664EB0007814636AB36A677AD2@exchange1.dimensions.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Scott Purcell wrote: > Hello, > > I hope I am not asking pre-posted question. But I love the cygwin > product. It makes life nice. But I am tiring a little of always typing: > /cygdrive/c everytime I want to start at c: > > eg: > cp fun.class /cygdrive/c/make_lr/updates/. > > Is there a way to do something so I can type the above but simpler. > cp fun.class /make_lr/updates/. > > ?? > I apologize if this is a fundamental question, but my hands are getting > tired and I am having trouble finding the answer to this. > > Thanks, > Scott Scott, Try running "mount -u 'c:\make_lr' /make_lr" and see if this helps. You may wish to create a /make_lr directory for tab-completion to work. For details, run "man mount". Igor P.S. You only need to mount this once - the mount table is persistent. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/