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RE: Why not mount / at C: ?
- To: <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: Why not mount / at C: ?
- From: <evansbryant at look dot ca>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:19:06 -0700
> Anyway, the risk of confusion, that you mention, between packages
> seems very low : it's very unlikely to find c:/bin, c:/lib,
> c:/home ... in a pure Windows installation. Usually Win stuff
> goes into C:\Program Files, or c:\WINNT. Moreover, being an
> experienced Unixian, I ( generally ;) realize what are the
> files I'm manipulating !
It would be nice if that were so, but I need to point out that in my
experience, it has just not necessarily been the case. I have worked on a
surprising number of systems that have had exactly that convention installed
on the Windows Drive. A fair amount of Windows software ignores convention,
and installs itself that way. The simple fact is that a lot of Windows
programmers learned to program in UN*X first, and still do things the way
they started.
Cheers,
~Neil
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