RE: Installing in root (was Re: Linux Journal Cygwin article)

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: 08 February 2005 08:12 > linda w wrote: > > > Perhaps he has read that many developers and users on this list > > use "C:\" as the root diretory and have no problems. I had the > > impression that the advice to

Re: Installing in root (was Re: Linux Journal Cygwin article)

2005-02-08 Thread Brian Dessent
linda w wrote: > Perhaps he has read that many developers and users on this list > use "C:\" as the root diretory and have no problems. I had the > impression that the advice to install into a subdirectory was more > of a Covering One's Behind (COB?) when presenting cygwin as a commercial > solut

Installing in root (was Re: Linux Journal Cygwin article)

2005-02-07 Thread linda w
Perhaps he has read that many developers and users on this list use "C:\" as the root diretory and have no problems. I had the impression that the advice to install into a subdirectory was more of a Covering One's Behind (COB?) when presenting cygwin as a commercial solution to vendors. I find it

Re: Linux Journal Cygwin article

2005-02-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:58:08AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Jonathan Arnold wrote: >> >> Interesting article in Linux Journal on Cygwin: >> >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8078 > >Unfortunately it's not written by someone very familiar with Cygwin. >First these's this incorrect statem

Re: Linux Journal Cygwin article

2005-02-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Jonathan Arnold wrote: > > Interesting article in Linux Journal on Cygwin: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8078 Unfortunately it's not written by someone very familiar with Cygwin. First these's this incorrect statement in the introduction: "Cygwin does not enable your computer to unde