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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:36:47 -0400
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Subject: Re: Treatment of x:path again
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95a.1001017032544.12122B-100000@lxplus006.cern.ch>; from Lassi.Tuura@cern.ch on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:31:19AM +0200

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:31:19AM +0200, Lassi A. Tuura wrote:
>|> How would you suggest having something be 'relative to the current path'
>|> in cygwin, given the /cygdrive method of doing things?  cygwin has never
>|> kept track of the current directory of other drives.
>
>FWIW, it seems this isn't even possible under Win32.  Based on MSDN docs
>it sounds like Win32 maintains only one current directory and really
>knows nothing about disk drives in that context.  It is only cmd.exe
>that maintains an illusion of a current directory for all the drives on
>Windows NT and 2000. 

NT stores the current directory in environment variables, actually.  Windows 9x
seems to store the information at the OS level.

cgf

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