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From: "J. David Boyd" <dave AT adboyd DOT com>
Subject:  Re: to cygdrive, or to not cygdrive!
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:57:05 +0000 (UTC)
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Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote in
news:20050524203613 DOT GG3120 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx: 

> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 08:19:19PM +0000, J. David Boyd wrote:
>>I have two windows xp pro machines.
>>
>>On one machine, my desktop at work, I can use a command line like:
>>cd /c/xfer
>>without needing cygdrive.
>>
>>On my laptop at home, I have to type in
>>cd /cygdrive/c/xfer
>>
>>I don't remember ever changing anything to allow my desktop to operate
>>the way it does.
> 
> And, yet, you did.  /cygdrive is (obviously?) the default.
> 

Oh, I have no doubts that I did.  I just don't remember what I did, or 
when.  I've used cygwin on my desktop for 5 years or so, I guess, and 
what tweaks I did way back are lost in the haze.


>>Any clues from anyone?  I would like my laptop to work the same way...
> 
> "man mount" should be pretty useful in determining how to
> --change-[the]cygdrive-prefix . 
> 

Ah, thank you very much.  I can see a mount as /c for the c: drive, so 
that must be what I did.  I'll make a note this time.

Have a great night, and thanks for the help.

Dave


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