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Re: The quest : working cygwin from a network mounted disk on a forein computer


Please set your line length to about seventy characters. Your posting 
is almost unreadable. 

* Daniel Chamberland-Tremblay (03-03-18 22:54 +0100)
> Quiet version : I would like to know if it is possible to get all unix
> commands from the command line (console) while accessing cygwin (on my
> local disk -- computer A) from a computer (computer B) that has mounted my
> local disk from the network (NT on Novell).

Your computer is a NetWare server? 

> I am looking for bash to recognise unix style path (e.g. /usr/local/bin/). 

This is standard behaviour. 

> The cygwin.bat file on computer B appears at the end. 
> 
> Verbose version : I am trying to access cygwin's unix tools intalled on my
> machine (which by the way work wonderfully well) from a collegue's computer
> by mounting my disk on is machine (the drive correspond to the same
> "letter" on both machines).  

So install Cygwin on the other computer or copy at least the mount 
points.

> Note 3- I cannot install cygwin to every machine I visit [...]

So copy at least the mount points (under HKLM/HKCU \Software\Cygwin).

> Note 4- Does cygwin have a special place that it checks to make the
> correspondance between / and the MSWindows equivalent ?  Could I specify
> that on my collegue's computer ? 

See above.

> Here is the cygwin.bat : 
> 
> --- file begin --- @echo off SET MAKE_MOD=UNIX SET HOME=F:\unix\home\daniel
> SET CYGWIN=notty SET TERM=builtin_xterm 

No.


Thorsten
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