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Re: Like-unix tree directories
- To: dominique dot cretel at cfwb dot be
- Subject: Re: Like-unix tree directories
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 06:16:01 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gw32 <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---CRETEL Dominique <dominique.cretel@cfwb.be> wrote:
>
> Hi Earnie,
>
> Thanks for your very interesting answer.
>
> Excuse me, but my english is poor enough to not understand the word
> "delima".
Well, mine's not very good either, obviously. That should have been
spelled dilemma and means, quoting Webster, a choice between
unfavorable alternatives.
Or in other words, you have to make a choice between:
1) Modifying the PATH variable for every package that has it's own
bin/ directory.
2) Creating standard UNIX directories and moving everything there.
3) Using the mount command and create logical directories to physical
directories and taking the chance of the non-cygwin programs
complaining. For this option you would still need to modify the DOS
PATH variable for every package. Also this limits the /usr/local/bin
to just one package.
All of these have equally unfavorable negatives, but, you have to
choose between one of them.
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