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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:37:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Sylvain=20Petreolle?= <spetreolle AT yahoo DOT fr>
Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem
To: "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy AT healthlanguage DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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If you don't specify a dos drive, \cygwin\bin will be relative to the
curent dos disk drive.
so if you are in d:, \cygwin\bin\ls.exe exists.
after that you do a 'cd /c'. current dos drive becomes c:.
c:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe doesn't exist and you get 'not found'.

answer to your P.S.:
P.S. I am not using the normal installation settings where /cygwin is 
mounted as / since I have a lot of other directories at the top of my D

drive that I want to access from within cygwin

all drives can be accessed by 'cd /cygdrive/x' when x is the letter of
the dos drive. so the following mountpoints is incorrect:
C: on /c type system (binmode)
should be
c: on /cygdrive/c type system (binmode)

does that answer all your questions ?

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