From: lhall@rfk.com ("Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)") Subject: Re: local paths and cd // i.e cd //g not working 7 Aug 1997 11:15:36 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <2.2.32.19970807164311.009432b8.cygnus.gnu-win32@ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: lhall@ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Original-To: Jerzy Schubert , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 12:04 PM 8/7/97 +0200, Jerzy Schubert wrote: >local paths seems not to work correctly, see below ls /usr vs. ls usr >form within / >also staying in f.e. /usr/local/sbin >and doing cd //g >then ls gives still the contents of /usr/local/sbin >( //g hapened to be / ) >after that cd ..; ls gives the contens of the root directory > Jerzy, Try making a /usr directory, for example. I think you'll find "ls usr" works OK then (I can't tell for sure because I'm at work with only b17 and it only kinda works here). Keep in mind that the basis for all of these tools is a UNIX environment. In UNIX, you cannot mount a directory to a location without creating that location first. The Cygnus version of mount is a little peculiar in that sense since it doesn't require the mounting directory to exist first. Regardless, the tools will require that the files and directories you give them exist. If what you type matches the mount point exactly, Cygnus will resolve it anyway. Otherwise, you need to provide the structure to make it work. Symbolic links may be another way to solve this problem... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (617) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (617) 239-1655 - FAX Wellesley, MA, 02181 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".