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: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:36:13 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: to cygdrive, or to not cygdrive! Message-ID: <20050524203613.GG3120@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 08:19:19PM +0000, J. David Boyd wrote: >I have two windows xp pro machines. > >On one machine, my desktop at work, I can use a command line like: >cd /c/xfer >without needing cygdrive. > >On my laptop at home, I have to type in >cd /cygdrive/c/xfer > >I don't remember ever changing anything to allow my desktop to operate the >way it does. And, yet, you did. /cygdrive is (obviously?) the default. >Any clues from anyone? I would like my laptop to work the same way... "man mount" should be pretty useful in determining how to --change-[the]cygdrive-prefix . cgf -- 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/