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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 14:41:51 -0400
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Here's one for the backburner.
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In-Reply-To: <19990505182945.28974.rocketmail@web130.yahoomail.com>; from Earnie Boyd on Wed, May 05, 1999 at 11:29:45AM -0700

Oddly enough this idea, or a variation of it, is already in my to-do list.

cgf

On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 11:29:45AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Add a CYGWIN variable option called [no]mount that will ignore the cygwin mount
>table and use the full Win32 paths always if set to nomount.  Paths would then
>map to D:/some/directory and if the drive letter isn't specified then the
>current drive would be used just as in DOS/WIN32.
>
>The advantage to this would be that the cooperation between cygwin and
>non-cygwin binaries could be achieved more smoothly.