Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3D3C609F.4000704@healthlanguage.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:44:31 -0600 From: "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sylvain Petreolle CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Odd mount and path problem References: <20020722193720 DOT 91299 DOT qmail AT web10104 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sylvain Petreolle wrote: > 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'. Wow, that's something I never understood from reading the user guide or the FAQ. Maybe I missed it, or this is just poorly documented. Either way, thanks for the explanation, it really helps a lot. > 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) I understand that I can always use /cygwin/c to reference c:/, but I was looking for something a little shorter to type :-) Also, mounting C:/ on /c was an example from the user guide, so I assumed it was kosher. It seems to work ok for me, am I getting lucky or can I reliably use a mount point of C:/ on /c? > does that answer all your questions ? Yup - you've been most helpful. Thanks again! -- Larry V. Streepy, Jr. Chief Technical Officer and VP of Engineering Health Language, Inc. -- "We speak the language of healthcare" 970/626-5028 (office) mailto:streepy AT healthlanguage DOT com 970/626-4425 (fax) http://www.healthlanguage.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/