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Re: [TCLUG:8364] cygwin



On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> >http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
>         grabbed it, tried it. it's interesting.
>         seems to run rather slow, tho. i suppose it's more of an
> emulator/interpreter of some sort, that sits on top of the DOS kernel.

Yeah. It's Unix on top of Win32 (not DOS), so it's the same as the GIMP on
Win32 problem. Too far removed from the kernel.

>         how do you change drives in it, anyway? It looks like it recognizes
> other drive letters; but I can't change to them. (would be nice if it would
> handle other drive letters better than the DOS lettered-drive monstrosity...)

I used to do 'cd //n/foo/dir', which worked fine, but N was a remote
share. Dunno if it works for local volumes.


-- Chris

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