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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:07:18 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?
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Max,

If one took the "change-cygdrive-prefix" approach, could not one 
achieve backward- or "convention-" compatibility with the symlink 
"/cygdrive -> /<changedCygdrivePrefix>"?

Myself, I have a bunch of symlinks for all the Windows drives, 
including my CD drives and diskette.

Randall Schulz


At 12:32 2003-01-27, Max Bowsher wrote:
>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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