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Re: /cygdrive/windows ?


On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:50:06PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>`cygpath --windir`
>
>The only time we'd need something like this visible outside a compiled
>application is a script, and a script can use cygpath to get the
>directory path and store it.  Any compiled program can just call
>GetWindowsDirectory() itself.

Actually, I was thinking that it would be nice to have this in a tar file:

/cygdrive/system/some.dll .

This would always extract some.dll to the windows/system directory.

cgf

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