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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 04:08:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: RE: mount command
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--- Andrew Dalgleish <andrewd AT axonet DOT com DOT au> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Earnie Boyd [SMTP:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> > Sent:	Thursday, March 25, 1999 2:51 PM
> > To:	Richard Lyon; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> > Subject:	Re: mount command
> > 
> > --- Richard Lyon <rlyon01 AT ozemail DOT com DOT au> wrote:
> > --8<--
> > > find command that doesn't work. I even get stranger results if I
> > attempt
> > > something like mount D:/topdirectory /home. Find generates the
> > following
> > > output:
> > --8<--
> > 
> > You need to use the backslash on the physical directory name.  I.E.:
> > 
> > mount D:\\topdirectory /home
> > 
> > 
> > I know from experience that it doesn't work with the forward slash.
> [Andrew Dalgleish]  
> huh?
> BASH.EXE-2.02$ mkdir /foo /bar
> BASH.EXE-2.02$ mount c:/temp /foo
> BASH.EXE-2.02$ mount c:\\temp /bar
> BASH.EXE-2.02$ mount
> Device           Directory           Type        Flags
> c:\temp          /foo                native      text!=binary
> c:\temp          /bar                native      text!=binary
> U:               /                   native      text=binary
> Both mounts look the same to me, and the relevant registry entries are
> the same.
> This is for cygwin B20.1 running under NT4SP3 and Win98.
> Am I missing something?
> 

Oops, sorry.  mount c:/temp /foo does work.  
However, `mount c:\\ /c; mount /c/temp /tmp' does not.

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