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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:52:14 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: Moving to the Desktop
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 > Can anybody help with a single keyboard command that would move the
 > user to the Desktop, usable across all systems?

Well, the following THREE commands will work on any system, and then you 
can easily reference the user's desktop:

mkdir /desktop
foo=`cygpath -D -w`
mount -u [-b|-t] "$foo" /desktop

now "cd /desktop" Just Works(tm).

--
Chuck

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