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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 18:22:11 -0700
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>Getting to be off-topic for the Cygwin list, but here's a pointer:
><http://google.com/search?q=rename+%22documents+and+settings%22+directory+site%3Amicrosoft.com>
>In particular, the first and fourth hits look relevant.
>
>As for "Program Files", as far as I know, the name isn't special in any
>way -- you can just rename it (and, of course, move all the programs
>already installed there - yuk!), or, better yet, simply don't install
>Cygwin under it...  Plus (to get this back on-topic), you can use Cygwin
>mounts to hide the spaces in directory names, e.g., on my machine:
>
>$ mount | grep java
>c:\Program Files\IBM\Java14 on /usr/contrib/java type user (binmode)
>
>HTH,
>	Igor
>

Thanks for that bit of information.  Off-topic can be serendipitous, 
maybe?  IIRC, I might be able to do this next go-around by installing 
Windows with a more custom set of shell folders.

Have you any experience with the Microsoft 'linkd' utility (or 
SysInternals 'join')?  I stumbled across a brief discussion in the 
Cygwin mailing list archives concerning implementing something similar 
but the idea was voted dead in the water.  Using 'ls' won't display 
reparse points, of course, but what can be an administrative nightmare 
could be mitigated somewhat aliasing 'dir' to 'cmd.exe /C dir' for a 
quick and dirty check, or using 'join' to keep abreast of things if one 
were to use that approach.  I know the NTFS mount drive-to-folder has 
its own set of problems.

I guess my question, if there is one, is to what extent can multiple 
drive letter assignments for partitions, hard disks, network mounts, 
etc. be replaced with something more sane?  Or short of a mount here and 
there and a few symlinks thrown in for good measure, is the idea of 
implementing something more Unix-ish a road to even more frustration?


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