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Re: how to get an older version of cygwin


At 01:54 PM 3/3/2004, you wrote:
>hi christopher,
>                  I was wondering how I can get an older version of
>cygwin. I neet the one which is CYGWIN_NT-5.0. the current release is
>CYGWIN_NT-5.1. 


Actually, you're reporting what 'uname -s' provides, which just tells you
which version of Windows you're running Cygwin on.  You're apparently
running XP.  CYGWIN_NT-5.0 would indicate that the O/S is W2K.  
'uname -r' would describe the Cygwin DLL release you're running.


>If I do a cd c:/ in that it doesn't show c:/ but
>/cygdrive/c which is causing a problem with perforce as perforce thinks
>that it isn't in the root as it only recognises the c:/ version of path.
>
>If there is a workaround to get c:/depot/ instead of /cygdrive/c/depot on
>the bash in cygwin then please do let me know that.


Cygwin will not report DOS/Windows path formats.  It reports POSIX-style 
instead.  You can convert back to DOS/Windows from POSIX with 'cygpath'.
Take a look at 'man cygpath' for details.



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