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RE: Does is any connection between cygwin and mks.
- To: "Schaible, Joerg" <Joerg dot Schaible at gft dot de>, "Avraham H. Fraenkel" <avraham dot fraenkel at comMATCH dot com>, cygwin-list <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Does is any connection between cygwin and mks.
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 05:47:37 -0700 (PDT)
--- "Schaible, Joerg" <Joerg.Schaible@gft.de> wrote:
>
> > 2) Can I use cygwin from mks and visa-versa.
>
> You should not. Basically it is no problem to call the executables of both,
> but most of the tools are available in both packages. Unfortunately both
> tools have different path handlings. The MKS Toolkit works with "C:/path",
> while Cygwin uses "/cygdrive/c/path" and has the ability for mounting
> drives, creating symlinks, and switch to UNC paths.
You can also use C:/path in Cygwin. And if you `mount -b c:/ /c' then you can
do /c/path as well.
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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