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Re: pwd command output
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: pwd command output
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:50:33 -0400
- Cc: Cesare Giuliani <giulianc at hotmail dot com>
- References: <19990930163110.22008.rocketmail@web129.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 09:31:10AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> I am using the 19990922 snapshot and I noticed that running the
>> pwd command inside the bash I got the following outputs:
>>
>> / if I am on the C: drive
>> /cygdrive/d if I am on the D: drive
>> /cygdrive/e if I am on the E: drive
>
>BTW, I'm thinking that the cygdrive text is stored in the registry and could be
>changed to what you want. I can't verify that at this time but you could look
>using RegEdit. The /cygdrive/ was added to change the // due to problems with
>Win32 thinking it was referencing a network drive. It could have just as well
>have been made an error if the drive isn't mounted rather than defaulting to
>anything at all.
If you use the mount.exe that comes with the snapshot (read the instructions
at the top of the download web page) then you can change the /cygdrive to
something else using mount.
I always *strongly* discourage people from mucking with the registry when
there are standard programs available to provide this.
-Chris Faylor
-Cygwin Manager
-Cygnus Solutions
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