From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Bug Report: b18 path involves drive letter (NBY) 14 Dec 1997 15:42:12 -0800 Message-ID: <19971214233009.23962.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: ywu AT internic DOT net Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com You need to: mount -b E:\\ /e then you can: cd /e pwd /e cd .. pwd / and be in the correct places. Let me point you to: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- >Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 11:11:33 -0500 >From: Yibing Wu >Reply-To: ywu AT internic DOT net >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Subject: Bug Report: b18 path involves drive letter > >I have two disks, named C: and E: respectively under NT. >C:\ is the / directory of gnuwin32 in my case and the problem rose when >I tried to access E: drive. > >For example, E:\ has a "WorkArea" directory, going there by "cd >//E/WorkArea" was successful. However, it was impossible to go one >level up from there. Neither "cd .." or "cd //E/" worked. Sometimes, >the directory path did not change at all (reading from `pwd`), >sometimes, the `pwd` reading was correct, but you knew you were not in >the right place since the contents (reading from `ls`) were still the >same as before. The only way around was to go back to / (C:\) then "cd >//E/" or "cd -". > >Bing > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".