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/cygdrive/windows ?
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: /cygdrive/windows ?
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 22:13:27 -0400
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
I was just thinking that it might be nice to have a generic way of
specifying the place where the /windows directory lives. This is
information that you retrieve from GetWindowsDirectory ().
This would be useful, for instance for an installer that wants to
put things in /windows.
Does /cygdrive/windows make sense or does the "drive" part of /cygdrive
belie the "windows".
There is also a similar requirement for something like /cygdrive/system
which would be the /windows/system directory (or whatever).
Windows doesn't have any way of accessing these devices other than through
an API, does it?
cgf