Re: cygwin on Mac: files in Virtual PC "shared folder"

2005-04-14 Thread Ashley Ward
On 14 Apr 2005, at 1:17 pm, Dave Korn wrote: From: Ashley Ward Sent: 14 April 2005 13:11 Perhaps I'm not being clear enough. I'm suggesting changing example 3.10 in the manual from mount \\pollux\home\joe\data /data to mount '\\pollux\home\joe\data' /data Pay clo

Re: cygwin on Mac: files in Virtual PC "shared folder"

2005-04-14 Thread Ashley Ward
On 14 Apr 2005, at 12:02 pm, Brian Dessent wrote: Ashley Ward wrote: Because of these issues, my preferred solution would be to use Shared Folders -- if it worked, it'd be a lot simpler than Samba -- no separate server and configuration to worry about. I might try following up the issue wi

Re: cygwin on Mac: files in Virtual PC "shared folder"

2005-04-14 Thread Ashley Ward
On 14 Apr 2005, at 12:33 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 14 10:54, Ashley Ward wrote: 2) The '\' character used in Windows share names is an escape character to bash -- so the example "mount \\pollux\home\joe\data /data" in the cygwin manual (example 3.10) is misleading. F

Re: cygwin on Mac: files in Virtual PC "shared folder"

2005-04-14 Thread Ashley Ward
On 13 Apr 2005, at 11:29 pm, Larry Hall wrote: At 04:29 PM 4/13/2005, you wrote: I'm experimenting with using cygwin on my Macintosh PowerBook (running OS X 10.3.8) within Virtual PC 7.0.1. My aim is to be able to continue developing the Windows port of our research software ("EDEN"). Cygwin (1.

cygwin on Mac: files in Virtual PC "shared folder"

2005-04-13 Thread Ashley Ward
I'm experimenting with using cygwin on my Macintosh PowerBook (running OS X 10.3.8) within Virtual PC 7.0.1. My aim is to be able to continue developing the Windows port of our research software ("EDEN"). Cygwin (1.5.14) seems to work OK in this environment in most respects -- but I have a