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, 16 Aug 2005 10:55:00 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix Message-ID: <20050816145500.GB7205@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, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:49:39PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >----Original Message---- >>From: Fred Kulack >>Sent: 16 August 2005 15:22 > >> On 08/16/2005 at 08:25:18 AM, cygwin-owner wrote: >> mount -m | grep -- --change-cygdrive-prefix | \ >> xargs bash -c 'while [ $# != 1 ]; do shift; done; echo "$@"' -- >> --- end of excerpt --- >> >> Why the complexity? Is there something wrong with this? >> >>> regtool get "/HKCU/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v2/cygdrive >> prefix" >> / > >http://cygwin.com/acronyms#YSHFRTT > >Or in this case, you should have _started_ reading the thread, since >you've basically just repeated what was said in the very first post. Well, we're now on 30 messages and counting on this crucial subject. How could you possibly expect anyone to *read* all of that? Oh, wait. You said this was already mentioned in the first post and, in addition, hey!, the problem was solved in the second post. Nevermind. 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/