* Christopher Faylor (2005-10-26 19:26 +0100) > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:22:22PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>I did not know that I could successfully /use/ the mount program (for >>creating mount tables when no mount tables are available and >>"hklm/hkcu/cygnus solutions" doesn't exist. >> >>(When you try to run a cygwin app in that situation it normally >>complains it cannot find cygwin1.dll and doesn't know where "/" is >>Is that so hard to grasp?!) > > Yes, it is hard to grasp because it isn't true. You're apparently > making suppositions and drawing flawed inferences from them. I don't > know why you're insisting on arguing with people who know this stuff > better than you do. > > You can remove all mounts and still run a program like "ls.exe" as long > as cygwin1.dll is in the same directory as ls.exe or cygwin1.dll is in > the path.
Okay, so when I _normally_ run apps like I _normally_ do ... they will a) not know where /, /bin, /etc, etc.. is and b) error "cygwin1.dll not found" (unless my app is in /bin or C:\cygwin\bin is in my path (which it is not by default... Thanks. > The cygwin mount table does not affect the loading of cygwin1.dll. Did I ever say that? No. >>>Wow. You're going to just _love_ scripting, when you hear about it! >> >>Again: regedit has a "scripting/non-interactive mode". And I am /Mr. >>Scripting/ - in all humble modesty. > > You may be Mr. Scripting but you shouldn't be giving anyone advice about > how to use cygwin because you obviously don't get it. I did not give advice in this thread. * Someone had a problem with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and I said he might try HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead. * Someone had a problem importing a .reg file and I said he might try "regedit /s .reg" instead. That's all. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
