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Re: volume pathnames


--- Jim Terman <terman@ddi.com> wrote:
> Currently, if you do not have a volume mounted, you get the following
> behavior
> 
> > cd d:/
> > pwd
> //d
> >
> 
> I would like to change that behavior so that is more 'MKS' style:
> 
> > cd d:/
> > pwd
> d:
> >
> 

The only thing possible at all is to do `mount d:\\ /d' which would cause the
//d to become /d.  In the snapshots and the CDROM release the unmounted default
has changed to /cygdrive/d instead of //d.

=====
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>

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