On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 04:39:59PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Good point, Brian. If anything qualifies as a FAQ, this certainly >>does. Joshua, would you be willing to write something up about the >>philosophy of MS-DOS and Cygwin? Known gotchas would be a good thing >>to include, even if they were only examples. > >I'll see about drafting something later today if I get the time. If >anyone gets to it before me, I would like to suggest that the blurb >should definitely mention "mount -c /" as a workaround if the pain of >having to actually type (or perhaps just look at) "/cygdrive" is a >reason causing people to try to use win32 paths.
I'd rather not officially suggest using "mount -c /". That is close to being a "works by coincidence" type of thing in and of itself and comes with its own set of problems. cgf -- 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/
