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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 00:53:41 -0400
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Subject: Re: /cygdrive/windows ?
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In-Reply-To: <200005030250.WAA25471@envy.delorie.com>; from dj@delorie.com on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:50:06PM -0400

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:50:06PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>`cygpath --windir`
>
>The only time we'd need something like this visible outside a compiled
>application is a script, and a script can use cygpath to get the
>directory path and store it.  Any compiled program can just call
>GetWindowsDirectory() itself.

Actually, I was thinking that it would be nice to have this in a tar file:

/cygdrive/system/some.dll .

This would always extract some.dll to the windows/system directory.

cgf