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Re: volume pathnames
- To: Jim Terman <terman at ddi dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: volume pathnames
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:17:40 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Jim Terman <terman@ddi.com> wrote:
> Currently, if you do not have a volume mounted, you get the following
> behavior
>
> > cd d:/
> > pwd
> //d
> >
>
> I would like to change that behavior so that is more 'MKS' style:
>
> > cd d:/
> > pwd
> d:
> >
>
The only thing possible at all is to do `mount d:\\ /d' which would cause the
//d to become /d. In the snapshots and the CDROM release the unmounted default
has changed to /cygdrive/d instead of //d.
=====
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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