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From: Vince Hoffman <Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com>
To: "'Max Bowsher'" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 200
	0)
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:24:18 -0000 
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No idea on how/if it knows where / is but i have used rsync as a service
with just rsync and cygwin1.dll using a  /cygdrive/<drive> path. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb AT ukf DOT net]
> Sent: 08 November 2002 17:06
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win
> 2000)
> 
> 
> Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:41:14PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >> Viviana Cotirlea <vcotirlea AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> >>> My question is: Because at one point I would like to 
> distribute the
> >>> product to others also, and I don't want to obligate them 
> to install
> >>> the cygwin, I would like to know why this string is required, and
> >>> if my only solution would be to add that key in the 
> registry if the
> >>> cygwin is not already installed on that machine?
> >> 
> >> Cygwin is just not designed to work in that kind of configuration. 
> >> So don't be surprised when things don't work right.
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> How does it know where / is?
> 
> Max.
> 
> 
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