Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:43:02 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: FAQ ALERT Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 04:39:59PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>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.

I'd rather not officially suggest using "mount -c /".  That is close to
being a "works by coincidence" type of thing in and of itself and comes
with its own set of problems.

cgf

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