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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:02:06 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.3.9: java with cygdrive
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:50:15PM +0100, Volkwein, Axel wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>try this: 
>- Copy e.g. rt.jar file from a installed java runtime environment to c:\
>- In Cygwin run 'jar tvf /cygdrive/c/rt.jar' for getting a list of the
>jar-contents to standard output.
>
>Java will return a 'path not found exception'. It does not understand
>the reference to the x: drive even if I change the cygdrive-prefix with
>the mount-command. The //x version in Cygwin-4.0 worked instead.

It sounds like 'jar' is not a cygwin executable (not surprising) and,
so, does not understand /cygdrive .  Is there something else going on
here?

Btw, there is no such thing as Cygwin-4.0.

cgf

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