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 Message-ID: <00b901c2c642$0dd550a0$a50aa8c0@adexainc.com> From: "Rob Siklos" To: References: <34385CBC5E8E664EB0007814636AB36A677AD2@exchange1.dimensions.com> <00a801c2c640$38e62a50$78d96f83@pomello> Subject: Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c? Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:24:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-10.4 required=11.0 tests=AWL,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05, UNSUB_PAGE,USER_AGENT_OE version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: running "mount --change-cygdrive-prefix /" will make all your drives be subdirectories of "/" instead of "/cygdrive". there is plenty about this if you search on google. I also suggest reading the cygwin faq from top to bottom - you'll find useful stuff that you weren't even looking for. Rob. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Scott Purcell" ; Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:11 PM Subject: Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c? > 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. > > How about: > > $ ln -s /cygdrive/c /c > > > Max. > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/