Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <006c01be74b2$6d993370$7c1c6ccb@rlyon> From: "Richard Lyon" To: "DJ Delorie" Cc: Subject: Re: mount command Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:22:08 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 See comments below: -----Original Message----- From: DJ Delorie To: rlyon01@ozemail.com.au Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Tuesday, 23 March 1999 5:55 Subject: Re: mount command > >Did you create a c:\home directory before you did the mount? Having >that empty directory on the parent drive makes a big difference in how >well some commands work, which is why mount warns you about them. > Yes I did. If I type a command like 'ls /home', it displays the directory contents. >TCL itself doesn't use cygwin for stuff like that. It goes right to >the Win32 calls, so you have to do conversions all over the place. > OK, this is what I was looking for. To add the conversions is not such a big deal. We are porting the discrete-event simulator omnet++ from linux. It's a mixture of c++ and tcl, so hopefully I can do the conversions from posix to win in c++ using the cygwin api. Pity about find. The omnet++ install script uses find to locate various system components. Thanks for the response. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com