Multiple cygwin installs

[Brian Hawkins]

Just FYI.  I found a pretty good way to manage multiple cygwin installs.

I use the windows subst command.

It works like this.  Create a directory c:\cyginstalls.  Then beneath it 
create a directory for each cygwin install you want like cygwin1, 
cygwin2 whatever.  Then use the subst command like so:
subst x: c:\cyginstalls\cygwin1

Now install cygwin to x:\.  Change the subst to c:\cyginstalls\cygwin2 
and install again to x:\.

To choose what cygwin you use just subst x to the appropriate folder.  
Kind of a poor mans symbolic link.

Brian

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