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Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:47:42 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Beginner- need help in understanding
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Nehal,

This one comes under the "Cygwin is not Unix" (nor Linux) category.

Cygwin does not include its own file system--it uses those of the 
underlying Windows operating system on which it runs. That means FAT 
(FAT-16 and FAT-32 as well) and under Windows NT, 2000 or XP, NTFS are 
generally available. Remote file system accessed via Windows File Sharing 
(which could include ext2 file systems via Samba, e.g.) are also accessible 
from Cygwin. If you installed other 3rd-party file system drivers on your 
Windows system, then the contents of such file systems would also be 
available in Cygwin, too.

Otherwise, no file systems are rendered accessible by virtue of installing 
Cygwin itself.

To answer your other question, installing Cygwin will not impair, impede, 
curtail nor foreclose access to any capabilities, software or facilities 
already installed and working on your PC.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 12:36 2002-09-28, Ashish Mehta wrote:
>Hi,
>
>     My purpose is to read few files from floppy ,
>which uses ext2 filesystem .I have a laptop and it has
>already installed two OS - win 98 and win 2000.
>
>If I install this tool under win2000, then still can I
>access my windows 2000 environment? if yes then how ?
>
>I tried to read your FAQ and also gone through
>archives, but I have not found the sepeicfic answer
>for this question.
>
>I first time came across this tool, so could you
>please clarify this doubts
>
>(1) IS there any simple way to read this files from
>ext2 filesystem under windows 2000 environement ?
>(2) If I install sygwin and then just set the proper
>path, then what I need to do to read files from my
>floppy?
>
>Regards,
>
>Nehal


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