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Re: CYGWIN mount points
- To: Carlo Dapor <dapor at swill dot org>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: CYGWIN mount points
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 06:03:30 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---Carlo Dapor <dapor@swill.org> wrote:
>
> With B19 I was able to address /dev/fd0.
> With B20 I have no way to have the same access.
>
> The registry for the mount points show the following settings -
strangely, they are un the key 15.0 ever since I used B19:
>
> For a: (NT) | '/dev/fd0' (*nix)
>
> fbinary 0x0
> fmixed 0x0
> fsilent 0x1
> native "\\.\a:"
> unix "/dev/fd0"
>
> For c: (NT) | '/' (*nix)
>
> fbinary, fmixed and fsilent all 0x0
> native "c:"
> unix "/"
>
> Does anybody have a clue or documentation on theses properties ?
> I tried different combinations, none of them worked. I am able to
'ls -l' c: and '/', no problem. I do not succeed with '/dev/fd0'
though . . .
>
This would be the correct behavior for a device file. `ls /dev/fd0/'
will list the directory on the diskette. However, a faster method for
accessing the diskette drive would be to `mount a:\\ /a' and then
reference it as /a, i.e.: `ls /a'.
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