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Re: cygwin copy
- From: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- To: 'David Široký' <dsiroky at email dot cz>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:00:42 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: cygwin copy
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210150940390.18519-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:51:01 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> It's interesting that all three replies to this message mentioned the
> registry... While Vince should only have mentioned that it's *currently*
> held in the registry, Pavel actually recommended exporting it. As I've
> been mildly chided for this before, here's an equivalent registry-free
> solution:
>
> On the source machine:
> $ mount -m > restore_mounts.sh
> On the target:
> $ ./restore_mounts.sh
> (after the appropriate file transfer, of course).
>
> I should mention that Fergus's solution with setup.exe should also work.
You could also create restore_mounts.bat the same way and run it in a MSDOS
window. The mount command does not depend on cygwin1.dll and the `mount
-m` output should work under MSDOS 'shells' as well as under Cygwin shells.
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