Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <20001011124737.6832.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 05:47:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: RE: Does is any connection between cygwin and mks. To: "Schaible, Joerg" , "Avraham H. Fraenkel" , cygwin-list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- "Schaible, Joerg" wrote: > > > 2) Can I use cygwin from mks and visa-versa. > > You should not. Basically it is no problem to call the executables of both, > but most of the tools are available in both packages. Unfortunately both > tools have different path handlings. The MKS Toolkit works with "C:/path", > while Cygwin uses "/cygdrive/c/path" and has the ability for mounting > drives, creating symlinks, and switch to UNC paths. You can also use C:/path in Cygwin. And if you `mount -b c:/ /c' then you can do /c/path as well. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com --- --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com