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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 03:31:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <Lassi DOT Tuura AT cern DOT ch>
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Subject: Re: Treatment of x:path again
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|> How would you suggest having something be 'relative to the current path'
|> in cygwin, given the /cygdrive method of doing things?  cygwin has never
|> kept track of the current directory of other drives.

FWIW, it seems this isn't even possible under Win32.  Based on MSDN docs
it sounds like Win32 maintains only one current directory and really
knows nothing about disk drives in that context.  It is only cmd.exe
that maintains an illusion of a current directory for all the drives on
Windows NT and 2000. 

See:
  http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q98/2/86.ASP
  http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q84/2/44.ASP

Hope this helps and thanks ever so much for the great software!
//lat
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