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From: "Eric Butler" <eric AT extremeboredom DOT net>
To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Windows can edit cygwin-files?
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 13:22:00 -0700
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I may be a little confused but if for say I create a file with VIM say in
/home/Eric say called "test,txt", I can then punch WinKey-R, type "notepad
c:\cygwin\home\Eric\test.txt" and view the file no problem.

Is that what you are trying to do or am I as confused as you? =)

-Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
To: "Fred Rathke" <comrat AT hotmail DOT com>
Cc: "news: cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: Windows can edit cygwin-files?


> Hallo Fred,
>
> > thanks for your answer.
> >     Fred> Hello, is it possible to edit the files generated by/under
> >     Fred> cygwin with a text editor under Windows XP?
>
> >     Eric> Of course -- they're just files.
>
> > But I heard that cygwin uses a "directory" or "partition" that is not
> > a real one, because all it stores it puts into one single file, it got
> > from the operation system it is installed on.
>
> > So for windows its one file, too big to edit really and with a format
> > I dont know, but for cygwin it looks like it's own harddisk. Thats
> > true? Thanks for your help.
>
> No, that isn't Cygwin, maybe there are some other 'systems' doing
> s.th. like this (BEOS?).
>
> Install Cygwin, e.g to c:\cygwin and then look with Explorer into
> c:\cygwin\usr\doc and read the docs you'll find.  More Information
> at the website http://cygwin.com/ and:
> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html
> User-Guide: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html
>
>
> Gerrit
> --
> "All faults& bugs are mine - Robert"
>     from squid/acinclude.m4,   Sun Apr 21 05:21:21 2002
>
>
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