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Re: why not use root as root?


mks and cygwin coexist peacefully on my 2K box at the office, with cygwin
installed in its own directory, and run only from a window opened by
cygwin.bat. Actually, mks resides in its own directory as well, but requires
that directory to come first on the PATH in effect outside cygwin.  The mks
tools which are not duplicated by cygwin show up in the cygwin window as
well.  Where I don't have mks, I install cygwin on the w2k installation
root, in order to be able to run gcc testsuite.  mks runs to a limited
extent even on the Windows variants which don't support the forking
mechanism used by both mks and cygwin.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
To: <gerrit.haase@t-online.de>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 6:12 PM
Subject: RE: why not use root as root?

Also the early unix like tools on windows (ie mks as
already mentioned here) used c:\ as / - which is why cygwin avoids that.




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