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Re: to cygdrive, or to not cygdrive!
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:36:13 -0400
- Subject: Re: to cygdrive, or to not cygdrive!
- References: <Xns9660A65DADC82davetsccorpcom@80.91.229.5>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 08:19:19PM +0000, J. David Boyd wrote:
>I have two windows xp pro machines.
>
>On one machine, my desktop at work, I can use a command line like:
>cd /c/xfer
>without needing cygdrive.
>
>On my laptop at home, I have to type in
>cd /cygdrive/c/xfer
>
>I don't remember ever changing anything to allow my desktop to operate the
>way it does.
And, yet, you did. /cygdrive is (obviously?) the default.
>Any clues from anyone? I would like my laptop to work the same way...
"man mount" should be pretty useful in determining how to --change-[the]cygdrive-prefix .
cgf
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