Re: goldstar? Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
Wow. Nice summation of the reasons for the need for a c:\cygwin. Can I get a goldstar here? Awarded. Sorry for the delay. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

goldstar? Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:35:11AM +1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/9/16 Thorsten Kampe you shouldn't install Cygwin directly to C:\ (but to C:\cygwin): so you don't have the Cygwin and the Windows root folder structure mixed. And where exactly is the harm in

Re: goldstar? Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: [re: Shaddy Baddah] Wow.  Nice summation of the reasons for the need for a c:\cygwin. Can I get a goldstar here? Indeed, a nice summary. Let me dispel some misconceptions that piped up in the Apple comparison: the two ways of thinking

Re: goldstar? Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, Before I start, I want to admit that I think I may have misinterpreted Andy Koppe's email. I now see that Andy may have been defending *not* demarcating the rest of the windows world with a /cygdrive prefix by just having all c:/ subpaths accessabile directly from the / prefix. That's not my