Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Tom Lee
Eric, thanks for your help. after further study, I noticed that using c:/directory works fine with my tests except tar.exe. I understand people here may like /cygdrive/c more than c:/. Just want to know if it is an accident feature that all other commands can work with c:/ except tar?

RE: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 October 2006 08:52, Tom Lee wrote: is there a way to mount /cygdrive/c as /? by default, c:/cygwin is mounted as /. I really like the feature of ls / to display evevrything under c:/ If that's *really* what you want, i.e. you want all your unix/linux-style usr, lib, etc, bin, var

RE: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Tom Lee
I really like the feature of ls / to display evevrything under c:/ If that's *really* what you want, i.e. you want all your unix/linux-style usr, lib, etc, bin, var (and so on) directories scattered amongst your win32-style Documents and Settings, Program Files, WINDOWS (and so on)

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tom Lee on 10/5/2006 6:13 AM: I really like the feature of ls / to display evevrything under c:/ If that's *really* what you want, i.e. you want all your unix/linux-style usr, lib, etc, bin, var (and so on) directories scattered

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 05 October 2006 08:52, Tom Lee wrote: is there a way to mount /cygdrive/c as /? by default, c:/cygwin is mounted as /. I really like the feature of ls / to display evevrything under c:/ If that's *really* what you want, i.e. you want all your unix/linux-style usr, lib,

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Tom Lee
From: Eric Blake I noticed that if I run those commands in a machine without cygwin installed. it still looks for c:\cygwin Which commands look for c:\cygwin when it is not installed? setup.exe, and all cygwin programs, honor your mount points. If cygwin has never been installed,

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-05 Thread Tom Lee
is there a way to mount /cygdrive/c as /? by default, c:/cygwin is mounted as /. I really like the feature of ls / to display evevrything under c:/ or if that is too much typing for you, read 'man mount' for how you can shorten it to /c, by remounting cygdrive as '/'). thanks. I find

cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Tom Lee
Hello, after further study, I noticed that using c:/directory works fine with my tests except tar.exe. all of the following commands works cp.exe c:/temp/tuner.h c:/test/ mv.exe c:/temp/tt.h c:/test for tar.exe, tar test.tar c:/temp/* works. however, tar cvf c:/test.tar c:/temp/* and tar

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tom Lee wrote: Hello, after further study, I noticed that using c:/directory works fine with my tests except tar.exe. all of the following commands works cp.exe c:/temp/tuner.h c:/test/ mv.exe c:/temp/tt.h c:/test for tar.exe, tar test.tar c:/temp/* works. however, tar cvf c:/test.tar

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tom Lee on 10/4/2006 5:45 PM: Hello, after further study, I noticed that using c:/directory works fine with my tests except tar.exe. I understand people here may like /cygdrive/c more than c:/. Just want to know if it is an

RE: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
From: Eric Blake [snip] You asked, so I'll answer. Yes, it is an accident that other tools understand c:/. It's no accident that make used to, and now again will, be supporting Windows paths. People put considerable time and effort into making it work originally, and then again just

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:23:49PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: Eric Blake [snip] You asked, so I'll answer. Yes, it is an accident that other tools understand c:/. It's no accident that make used to, and now again will, be supporting Windows paths. People put considerable time and