Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Tom Lee
> is there a way to mount /cygdrive/c as /? > by default, c:/cygwin is mounted as /. > > I really like the feature of "ls /" to display evevrything under c:/ "or if that is too much typing for you, read 'man mount' for how you can shorten it to /c, by remounting cygdrive as '/')." thanks. I

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Tom Lee
From: Eric Blake < > > I noticed that if I run those commands in a machine without cygwin > installed. > it still looks for c:\cygwin Which commands look for c:\cygwin when it is not installed? setup.exe, and all cygwin programs, honor your mount points. If cygwin has never been installed

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Tom Lee (Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:51:41 +) > is there a way to mount /cygdrive/c as /? > by default, c:/cygwin is mounted as /. > > I really like the feature of "ls /" to display evevrything under c:/ "or if that is too much typing for you, read 'man mount' for how you can shorten it to /c, by

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 05 October 2006 08:52, Tom Lee wrote: is there a way to mount /cygdrive/c as /? by default, c:/cygwin is mounted as /. I really like the feature of "ls /" to display evevrything under c:/ If that's *really* what you want, i.e. you want all your unix/linux-style usr, lib

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tom Lee on 10/5/2006 6:13 AM: > >> > I really like the feature of "ls /" to display evevrything under c:/ >> >> If that's *really* what you want, i.e. you want all your >> unix/linux-style >> usr, lib, etc, bin, var (and so on) director

RE: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Tom Lee
> I really like the feature of "ls /" to display evevrything under c:/ If that's *really* what you want, i.e. you want all your unix/linux-style usr, lib, etc, bin, var (and so on) directories scattered amongst your win32-style "Documents and Settings", "Program Files", "WINDOWS" (and so o

RE: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 October 2006 08:52, Tom Lee wrote: > is there a way to mount /cygdrive/c as /? > by default, c:/cygwin is mounted as /. > > I really like the feature of "ls /" to display evevrything under c:/ If that's *really* what you want, i.e. you want all your unix/linux-style usr, lib, etc, bin,

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Tom Lee
Eric, thanks for your help. > > after further study, I noticed that using "c:/directory" works fine with > my tests except tar.exe. > > > I understand people here may like /cygdrive/c more than c:/. Just want > to know if it is an accident feature that all other commands can work > with c:/ ex

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:23:49PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> From: Eric Blake >[snip] >>You asked, so I'll answer. Yes, it is an accident that other tools >>understand c:/. > >It's no accident that make used to, and now again will, be supporting >Windows paths. People put considerable t

RE: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Eric Blake [snip] > You asked, so I'll answer. Yes, it is an accident that other > tools understand c:/. It's no accident that make used to, and now again will, be supporting Windows paths. People put considerable time and effort into making it work originally, and then again just recen

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tom Lee on 10/4/2006 5:45 PM: > Hello, > > after further study, I noticed that using "c:/directory" works fine with > my tests except tar.exe. > > > I understand people here may like /cygdrive/c more than c:/. Just want > to know if it

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tom Lee wrote: Hello, after further study, I noticed that using "c:/directory" works fine with my tests except tar.exe. all of the following commands works cp.exe c:/temp/tuner.h c:/test/ mv.exe c:/temp/tt.h c:/test for tar.exe, tar test.tar c:/temp/* works. however, tar cvf c:/test.tar c: