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RE: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000)
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: "'Max Bowsher'" <maxb at ukf dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:24:18 -0000
- Subject: RE: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000)
No idea on how/if it knows where / is but i have used rsync as a service
with just rsync and cygwin1.dll using a /cygdrive/<drive> path.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@ukf.net]
> Sent: 08 November 2002 17:06
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win
> 2000)
>
>
> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:41:14PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >> Viviana Cotirlea <vcotirlea@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>> My question is: Because at one point I would like to
> distribute the
> >>> product to others also, and I don't want to obligate them
> to install
> >>> the cygwin, I would like to know why this string is required, and
> >>> if my only solution would be to add that key in the
> registry if the
> >>> cygwin is not already installed on that machine?
> >>
> >> Cygwin is just not designed to work in that kind of configuration.
> >> So don't be surprised when things don't work right.
> >
> > There is no reaon why just copying the dll and a program shouldn't
> > work. The program just has to be aware enough to set its own
> > defaults. Cygwin *is* designed to work fine in such an environment.
>
> Without any mount table at all?
>
> How does it know where / is?
>
> Max.
>
>
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