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 Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:45:19 -0700 From: Tom Hall To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [?@yahoo.com: Found problem of floppy drive acces] Message-ID: <20050102184519.GA400591@mind> Reply-To: tlhall@keepandbeararms.com References: <20041217172257.GB442@fiji.reservoir.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Operating-System: CYGWIN_98-4.10 mind 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) X-IsSubscribed: yes Since this problem appears to be the result of a bug in Windows, and I don't use my floppy too much, I've come up with a Windows-level hack that makes the problem more tolerable for me on Windows 98 until the proper Cygwin solution is found. This "works" for both find and df. Add this line somewhere above where bash is called in CYGWIN.BAT : subst a: c: When I really want to use the floppy: subst a: /d [use the floppy] subst a: c: This assumes that c:\windows\command is in my path. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/