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From: "Bernard A Badger" <bab AT vx DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Useful cygwinism: "Explorer Here"
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 13:50:25 -0400
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Christopher Faylor is having a joke at your expense,
I _assume_ it's because he feels you need to RTFM before you ask 
quite so many questions.   Christopher Faylor is one of the main 
contributors, and has no doubt seen way too many questions that 
could be answered by a quick look at the FAQ.

To answer your question, anyway, you are not chrooted, but you 
are inside a "virtual" file system.  Cygwin tries to make Unix 
tools feel "at home", and this necessitates a certain bending of 
the file system to Unix conventions.  

You can find your "real" drives hidden away in "/cygdrive".
For example, "/cygdrive/c" is your "C:\" drive.  If you don't like this,
check out the mount command.  You can also 
ln -s /cygdrive/c /C
which is what I do.
You can change the /cygdrive prefix, but I don't recommend it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 1:23 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Useful cygwinism: "Explorer Here"
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 10:58:06AM -0600, Dave Price wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 09:45:14AM +0200, 
> BStrohhaecker AT Hueller-Hille DOT com wrote:
> >> Von: Gary R. Van Sickle [mailto:g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net]
> >> Gesendet: Freitag, 28. Juni 2002 06:06
> >> 
> >> FWIW, to open 2 windows inside explorer try 'explorer /e,$XPATH &'.
> >
> >awesome! windoze gets friendlier by the moment.
> >
> >one question, my cygwin seems 'chrooted' into c:/cygwin; how do i
> >escape?
> 
> Bribe the guards?
> 
> cgf
> 
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