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Re: How does cygwin map / to c:/cygwin?
- From: Jeremy Hetzler <jeremyhetzler at earthlink dot net>
- To: "Jeff Perry" <jsp at mail dot utexas dot edu>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:22:52 -0700
- Subject: Re: How does cygwin map / to c:/cygwin?
At 05:44 PM 9/27/2002 -0500, Jeff Perry wrote:
I am very confused about how cygwin maps its root to the c:/cygwin
directory. I'm also not sure what /cygdrive is.
"c:\cygwin" is mounted as "/". Your Windows drives (c:, d:) are mounted
under /cygdrive (/cygdrive/c, /cygdrive/d).
When I type gvim /etc/passwd from bash, gvim comes up with an empty file
called passwd in c:/etc (which doesn't exist). If I try to write this file,
gvim fails, which, of course, it should. (The gvim I'm using is the one
compiled for NT).
This is correct behavior. Only programs compiled against cygwin1.dll are
aware of Cygwin-style paths. vim is available for Cygwin, maybe gvim is as
well (try http://cygwin.com/packages/ , try Google, try searching the
mailing list).
Also, when I try to tab-expand /cygdrive/c/..., bash can never expand the
files. For example, if I type
$ cd /cygdrive/c/winn<tab>, bash cannot complete the 't' and instead beeps.
But if I complete it for bash by adding the t and the pressing <return>,
bash will cd me to the c:/winnt directory.
The name of the directory is WINNT, not winnt. bash will tab-complete
successfully if you give it the right name (exceptions include /dev).
Jeremy
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