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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 11:34:08 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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To: Keith Starsmeare <kxs AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: pwd command output
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Keith Starsmeare wrote:
> [...]
> Why have the drives been mapped under "cygdrive" - that's quite a
> confusing name as it's referring to the DOS or Window's drives! Why not
> mount them on /dev (in the Unix style) instead?

Think twice.
The /dev directory contains devices, not file systems.

Regards,
Corinna


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