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Re: useing /dev/fd0


Simon McCaughey wrote:
> 
> Why wl it be going away soon? as a new user to cygwin i find it very
> useful...
> 

// is reserved by Win32 to refer to a host/server.  It simply causes
Cygwin confusion and delays when Cygwin tries to look for a server named
//a which doesn't exist.  The more servers the more the delay.  the
//server/share use will still be supported by Cygwin the //a use will
not.

It will be to your benefit to
  mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /
so that you can `ls /a; ls /c; ls /d' instead of `ls /cygdrive/a; ls
/cygdrive/b; ls /cygdrive/c; ls /cygdrive/d'.

Earnie.

P.S.: This has been discussed before, search the archives.

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