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Re: cygwin copy


On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Michael A Chase wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:51:01 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>
> > It's interesting that all three replies to this message mentioned the
> > registry...  While Vince should only have mentioned that it's *currently*
> > held in the registry, Pavel actually recommended exporting it.  As I've
> > been mildly chided for this before, here's an equivalent registry-free
> > solution:
> >
> > On the source machine:
> >         $ mount -m > restore_mounts.sh
> > On the target:
> >         $ ./restore_mounts.sh
> > (after the appropriate file transfer, of course).
> >
> > I should mention that Fergus's solution with setup.exe should also work.
>
> You could also create restore_mounts.bat the same way and run it in a MSDOS
> window.  The mount command does not depend on cygwin1.dll and the `mount
> -m` output should work under MSDOS 'shells' as well as under Cygwin shells.

Yep, thanks, I forgot about the existence of bat files since starting on
cygwin... :-D
As for the bit about mount not depending on cygwin1.dll, it would be
interesting if this were the case...  And which DLL does it get
getmntent() from?
	Igor
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