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Re: Bug Report: b18 path involves drive letter (NBY)
- To: ywu at internic dot net
- Subject: Re: Bug Report: b18 path involves drive letter (NBY)
- From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 15:30:08 PST
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
You need to:
mount -b E:\\ /e
then you can:
cd /e
pwd
/e
cd ..
pwd
/
and be in the correct places.
Let me point you to:
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/
http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/
http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/
http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32
http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html
http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/
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>Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 11:11:33 -0500
>From: Yibing Wu <ywu@internic.net>
>Reply-To: ywu@internic.net
>To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: Bug Report: b18 path involves drive letter
>
>I have two disks, named C: and E: respectively under NT.
>C:\ is the / directory of gnuwin32 in my case and the problem rose when
>I tried to access E: drive.
>
>For example, E:\ has a "WorkArea" directory, going there by "cd
>//E/WorkArea" was successful. However, it was impossible to go one
>level up from there. Neither "cd .." or "cd //E/" worked. Sometimes,
>the directory path did not change at all (reading from `pwd`),
>sometimes, the `pwd` reading was correct, but you knew you were not in
>the right place since the contents (reading from `ls`) were still the
>same as before. The only way around was to go back to / (C:\) then "cd
>//E/" or "cd -".
>
>Bing
>
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