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RE: dos file names (what should I do)
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Joe Marzot'" <gmarzot at baynetworks dot com>
- Subject: RE: dos file names (what should I do)
- From: Wayne Davison <wayne at clari dot net>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 10:38:42 -0800
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Since various utilities have trouble with the double-slash paths, I
recommend mounting all your drive letters. One simple approach would be to
mount them in the root directory:
mount d: /d
Unfortunately there are yet bugs in how mounted directories are handled.
Have you ever tryed typing "ls /"? I always get an empty directory
listing for this or any drive's root dir that is mounted (such as trying
"ls /d" or even "ls /d/." using the above example). However, it works fine
for specifying files.
Note that if you want the mount points to show up in a directory listing,
you should do a "mkdir /d" before you do the mount. However, this isn't
required.
I also think that cygwin.dll should be changed to use some better default
mounts than //x -- I think that /dev/x (or even /dev/dsk/x) would work
well. These things don't have to be short since they can be mounted
wherever the user wishes.
..wayne..
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