Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Originating-IP: [217.81.182.233] From: "Fred Rathke" To: "news: cygwin" Cc: "Fred Rathke" References: <87n0sl15bi.fsf@blarg.net> Subject: Re: Windows can edit cygwin-files? Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 21:46:53 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jul 2002 19:47:14.0053 (UTC) FILETIME=[693A2350:01C230EF] Hi Eric, hello all, thanks for your answer. Fred> Hello, is it possible to edit the files generated by/under Fred> cygwin with a text editor under Windows XP? Eric> Of course -- they're just files. But I heard that cygwin uses a "directory" or "partition" that is not a real one, because all it stores it puts into one single file, it got from the operation system it is installed on. So for windows its one file, too big to edit really and with a format I dont know, but for cygwin it looks like it's own harddisk. Thats true? Thanks for your help. Sincerely yours Fred Rathke http://usability.liquid.org/ Usability in Ihrem Projektleitfaden. Sponsered by www.liquidinformation.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/