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Re: pwd command output


On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> BTW, I'm thinking that the cygdrive text is stored in the registry and could be
> changed to what you want.  I can't verify that at this time but you could look
> using RegEdit.  The /cygdrive/ was added to change the // due to problems with
> Win32 thinking it was referencing a network drive.  It could have just as well
> have been made an error if the drive isn't mounted rather than defaulting to
> anything at all.

Why have the drives been mapped under "cygdrive" - that's quite a
confusing name as it's referring to the DOS or Window's drives! Why not
mount them on /dev (in the Unix style) instead?

Keith


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