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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:46:05 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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L Anderson wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to understand, clarify, and document a problem I have
> encountered with the latest version of cygwin and it would be of great
> help if someone would confirm or deny something about cygwin for me.
> 
> It's my understanding from all I've read that cygwin is designed to run
> under a number of shells including, specifically, bash and
> Dos/Win98(command.com--I'm running Win98), albeit with  slightly
> different behavior.  In other words, can I expect cygwin to function
> Unixishly in a cygwin window and Dosishly in a Dos/Win98 window?
> 

Cygwin understands both sets of paths.  It will correctly map C:/temp,
C:\TEMP from command.com.  It will correctly map C:/temp, C:\\TEMP from
bash.  It will correctly map /cygdrive/c/temp from both.  Your problems
will come from non-Cygwin programs that don't understand Cygwin's mount
table.

> I have searched the faqs, user documents, etc. and can find nothing that
> claims otherwise.
> 

Right.

> Thanks,
> 
> Lowell Anderson
> 
> <comic relief>
> I've been programming for over 35 years so I hope this doesn't get me
> removed from the list or preclude me from getting an answer.
> </comic relief>
> 

LOL,
Earnie

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