X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_YG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Strange cygpath behavior. Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:25:27 +0200 Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <73619422.20110621092310@mtu-net.ru> <4E00321A.30105@lysator.liu.se> <92658329.20110623165230@mtu-net.ru> <4E03492D.40109@gmail.com> <1144668147.20110623190534@mtu-net.ru> <4E035F46.7000207@gmail.com> <1291997550.20110623220605@mtu-net.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 * Andrey Repin (Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:06:05 +0400) > To tell you, that was actually a good idea for me. I don't have an > eternity to type "/cygwhatever" every time I want to address another > drive. Ever heard of "tab completion"? > So the idea to map cygdrive to "/" was actually very handy, thanks to > this mailing list helping to finish and polish it. Right. So instead of a clean Cygwin root layout like... |---bin |---cygdrive | |---c | |---d | |---e | |---f | `---z |---dev |---etc |---home |---lib |---proc |---sbin |---tmp |---usr `---var ...you will now have something like... |---bin |---c |---d |---dev |---e |---etc |---f |---home |---lib |---proc |---sbin |---tmp |---usr |---var `---z Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple