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Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 19:53:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: /bin mount point and sh.exe
To: Mark Peterson <mark_h_peterson AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Mark Peterson <mark_h_peterson AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> I have chosen the "identity mount" setup and mounted 
> as shown below.  I have mounted c: as /c as well, but in this case it
> is umount-ed at the moment.
> 
> It is important that sh.exe be able to find itself to execute shell
> scripts.  So I went so far as to put a few critical programs like sh,
> ls, cat, rm, etc in 
> c:\bin to see if sh.exe could always find what it needs.  
> 
> This is the question:  
> At DOS with paths set up so that the H-i586-cygwin32/bin directory can
> be found, should I be able
> to simply type:
> 
> sh ls
> 
> and get a directory?  As it is, sh cannot find ls in this way.  Is this
> bad syntax, or is this normal behavior?

Yes, this is bad syntax.  `sh -c ls' would give you what you're looking for. 
OTOH, if you have the paths in PATH in DOS format then at the DOS prompt you
should be able to just type `ls' to get a POSIX style directory listing.
===
"Earnie Boyd" <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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