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Re: Windows can edit cygwin-files?
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: "Fred Rathke" <comrat at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: "news: cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:13:31 +0200
- Subject: Re: Windows can edit cygwin-files?
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
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- Reply-to: "Gerrit @ cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Hallo Fred,
> thanks for your answer.
> Fred> Hello, is it possible to edit the files generated by/under
> Fred> cygwin with a text editor under Windows XP?
> Eric> Of course -- they're just files.
> But I heard that cygwin uses a "directory" or "partition" that is not
> a real one, because all it stores it puts into one single file, it got
> from the operation system it is installed on.
> So for windows its one file, too big to edit really and with a format
> I dont know, but for cygwin it looks like it's own harddisk. Thats
> true? Thanks for your help.
No, that isn't Cygwin, maybe there are some other 'systems' doing
s.th. like this (BEOS?).
Install Cygwin, e.g to c:\cygwin and then look with Explorer into
c:\cygwin\usr\doc and read the docs you'll find. More Information
at the website http://cygwin.com/ and:
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html
User-Guide: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html
Gerrit
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