Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:21:11 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000) Message-ID: <20021108172111.GA4028@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <F4SxzW234xOjIL2jpWk000007be AT hotmail DOT com> <015f01c2873d$45496d30$78d96f83 AT pomello> <20021108165415 DOT GB28207 AT redhat DOT com> <018b01c28749$117fdd70$78d96f83 AT pomello> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <018b01c28749$117fdd70$78d96f83@pomello> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:05:41PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote: >>There is no reaon why just copying the dll and a program shouldn't >>work. The program just has to be aware enough to set its own defaults. >>Cygwin *is* designed to work fine in such an environment. > >Without any mount table at all? Yes. >How does it know where / is? There isn't one. You have to reference everything via /cygdrive. cgf -- 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/