Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

Rolf Campbell rcampbell@tropicnetworks.com
Fri Mar 28 04:35:00 GMT 2003


>>And about searching for "bin/cygwin1.dll".  You could first try
>>"C:\cygwin\bin\" (which should match 99% of all cases),
> 
>  Sorry. I count for more than 1% ;-)
>   <just this time; to break your assumption>
> 
> Software packages belong in  C:\Program\*  and nowhere else (Note that this
> is equal to "C:\Program Files\*" on ENGLISH Win98.

Ahhh... yeah.  So, what is the rest of the disk for?  Why not just put 
everything in a directory called "C:\Everything"?



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