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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 05:47:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: Does is any connection between cygwin and mks.
To: "Schaible, Joerg" <Joerg DOT Schaible AT gft DOT de>,
        "Avraham H. Fraenkel" <avraham DOT fraenkel AT comMATCH DOT com>,
        cygwin-list <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
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--- "Schaible, Joerg" <Joerg DOT Schaible AT gft DOT de> 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

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