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Re: cygwin unix path is not longer recognized
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: <kumarchi at attbi dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:42:31 -0000
- Subject: Re: cygwin unix path is not longer recognized
- References: <E18pr1t-00006c-00@clustermail.minx.net.uk>
kumarchi at attbi dot com wrote:
> folks:
> I installed octave for windows. But this installation somehow mangled
> my cygwin (latest feb 9, 2003 )
>
> cygwin no longer recognizes unix type paths
> I cannot say
> /bin/ls or /cygdrive/d/bin/ls
>
> It has to be
> d:/cygwin/bin/ls
>
>
> How can restore my unix paths?
Sounds like the Octave installer rewrote your mount table.
Run:
mount -f -s -b "M:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
mount -f -s -b "M:/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
mount -f -s -b "M:/cygwin" "/"
adapting paths as necessary for your installation.
Of course, octave probably won't work after doing that...
Max.
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