From: wayne@clari.net (Wayne Davison) Subject: RE: dos file names (what should I do) 1 Feb 1997 16:02:18 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC102C.18F13E40.cygnus.gnu-win32@wayned.sc.scruznet.com> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Joe Marzot'" Encoding: 22 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Since various utilities have trouble with the double-slash paths, I recommend mounting all your drive letters. One simple approach would be to mount them in the root directory: mount d: /d Unfortunately there are yet bugs in how mounted directories are handled. Have you ever tryed typing "ls /"? I always get an empty directory listing for this or any drive's root dir that is mounted (such as trying "ls /d" or even "ls /d/." using the above example). However, it works fine for specifying files. Note that if you want the mount points to show up in a directory listing, you should do a "mkdir /d" before you do the mount. However, this isn't required. I also think that cygwin.dll should be changed to use some better default mounts than //x -- I think that /dev/x (or even /dev/dsk/x) would work well. These things don't have to be short since they can be mounted wherever the user wishes. ...wayne.. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".