From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Like-unix tree directories 18 Jul 1998 23:12:15 -0700 Message-ID: <19980719021229.27412.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1e.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Andrew Lipnitsky Cc: gw32 Hi Andrew, This keeps showing up, and it is to do with UNIX and WIN32 filesystem confusion. ---Andrew Lipnitsky wrote: > > > > Hello Dominique. > > CRETEL Dominique wrote: > > > For example: > > D:\Cygnus\B19\H-i386-cygwin32 mount as /bin unix-like directories, > > C:\texmf\MiKTeX\bin mount as /usr/local/bin ??? > > > > Is it possible??? > > Yes, of course. > At first you must create /bin and /usr/local/bin : You do not _HAVE_TO_ `create /bin' to `mount -b //d/Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin /bin'. If you do, you have two totally unrelated directories. The cygwin mount command doesn't care if d:\bin exists or not. All you are doing is creating a logical directory to relate to a physical directory which is stored in the Win32 Registry. == - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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".