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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Good point, Brian.  If anything qualifies as a FAQ, this certainly does.
> Joshua, would you be willing to write something up about the philosophy
> of MS-DOS and Cygwin?  Known gotchas would be a good thing to include,
> even if they were only examples.

I'll see about drafting something later today if I get the time.  If
anyone gets to it before me, I would like to suggest that the blurb
should definitely mention "mount -c /" as a workaround if the pain of
having to actually type (or perhaps just look at) "/cygdrive" is a
reason causing people to try to use win32 paths.

Brian

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