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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Rob Siklos" <rsiklos AT adexa DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:32:01 -0000
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Rob Siklos wrote:
> running "mount --change-cygdrive-prefix /" will make all your drives
> be subdirectories of "/" instead of "/cygdrive".

And then when you run some script which expects /cygdrive, it will break.
OK, the script is what is broken, but the path of least resistance is to use
symlinks instead.


Max.


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