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From: "John Morrison" <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
To: "John Dallaway" <jld AT ecoscentric DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:45:42 -0000
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You didn't say whether you wanted it for a script or exe, for
a script...

cygpath -w -p /

works for me :)

J.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of John Dallaway
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2003 6:33 pm
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
> 
> 
> I need to determine the location of an existing Cygwin net installation 
> programatically. More precisely, I need to determine the native 
> path to the 
> directory containing cygwin1.dll from outside the Cygwin environment. I 
> could interrogate the registry for mount points, but in the worst case I 
> would have to look under both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for 
> both the "/bin" and "/" mount points. Is there a more robust method?
> 
> John Dallaway
> 
> 
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