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Re: cygdrive confusing (was Re: new cygwin.dll (was Re: Make problems))
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 11:25:09AM -0700, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 16, 1999, Chris Faylor wrote:
>[...]
>> I've actually changed later snapshots so that these do not show up in
>> the mount table. /cygdrive is now always usable as a default prefix for
>> drives even for drives that have a mount associated with them.
>
>OK, never mind then. :-)
>
>Does this bring us closer to being able to axe //<drive-letter>/ then
>I hope?
I'd like to but I think we should probably wait for a long time before
removing it entirely. It is only recognized now. As you know, cygwin
will never generate a //x path nowadays.
cgf