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Multiple cygwin installs


Just FYI. I found a pretty good way to manage multiple cygwin installs.

I use the windows subst command.

It works like this. Create a directory c:\cyginstalls. Then beneath it create a directory for each cygwin install you want like cygwin1, cygwin2 whatever. Then use the subst command like so:
subst x: c:\cyginstalls\cygwin1


Now install cygwin to x:\. Change the subst to c:\cyginstalls\cygwin2 and install again to x:\.

To choose what cygwin you use just subst x to the appropriate folder. Kind of a poor mans symbolic link.

Brian

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