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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:31:13 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My
  Documents with bash cp?
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Dear Mr. / Ms. / Miss Zombie,

Not everyone's Windows system is installed on their C drive and the 
"multi-user" versions of the Windows OS such as NT, 2K and XP don't follow 
the directory structuring convention implicit in your answer.

Thus, your instructions will fail on many users' systems.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 10:20 2002-10-23, you wrote:
>Assuming you haven't changed the standard mount points:
>
>cp file /cygdrive/c/My\ Documents


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