Subject: RE: ls /dev/*
From: "Mike Kenny - BCX - Professional Services JHB" <[email-masked]>
To: "Bobby McNulty" <[email-masked]>, "Andrew DeFaria" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:50:08 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] 
> [mailto:[email-masked]]On Behalf Of Bobby McNulty
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:43 PM

> Sounds like a winner.
> I'd go along with having cygdrive changed to dev.
> dev holds all the devices, like aux, con, and others.
> lpt

So why not do away with the unix/linux mount command and just
cd /dev/hda1, etc. instead of all the hassle with mount points and
file systems, etc.
I wonder why AT&T never thought of that

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