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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1


On 12 October 2006 15:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Oct 12 16:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Oct 12 15:36, John Morrison wrote:
>>> On Thu, October 12, 2006 2:41 pm, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>>> I wrote the script originally, and the initial version did use POSIX
>>>> paths.
>>> 
>>> I thought you did and was suprised to find it not using POSIX paths but
>>> assumed that there was a reason...
>>> 
>>>>  I've just re-read the early discussions, and found this:
>>>> 
>>>> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00033.html>.
>>> 
>>> and there it is.
>> 
>> So it looks like using mixed paths (cygpath -m) would be an easy way
>> out of this for now.
> 
> Naah, scratch that.  Creating a mount point for $SYSTEMROOT seems the
> better solution.

  Imagine the fun if someone decided to try and uninstall cygwin by running
"rm -rf /" :)


    cheers,
      DaveK
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