From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: CYGWIN mount points 11 Nov 1998 05:59:44 -0800 Message-ID: <19981110140330.8991.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send102.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Carlo Dapor , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com ---Carlo Dapor wrote: > > With B19 I was able to address /dev/fd0. > With B20 I have no way to have the same access. > > The registry for the mount points show the following settings - strangely, they are un the key 15.0 ever since I used B19: > > For a: (NT) | '/dev/fd0' (*nix) > > fbinary 0x0 > fmixed 0x0 > fsilent 0x1 > native "\\.\a:" > unix "/dev/fd0" > > For c: (NT) | '/' (*nix) > > fbinary, fmixed and fsilent all 0x0 > native "c:" > unix "/" > > Does anybody have a clue or documentation on theses properties ? > I tried different combinations, none of them worked. I am able to 'ls -l' c: and '/', no problem. I do not succeed with '/dev/fd0' though . . . > This would be the correct behavior for a device file. `ls /dev/fd0/' will list the directory on the diskette. However, a faster method for accessing the diskette drive would be to `mount a:\\ /a' and then reference it as /a, i.e.: `ls /a'. == - \\||// -------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o-------------- -- earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32 -- ----------------ooo0O--O0ooo----------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ 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".