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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Virtual drives should not be pies in the sky
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:52:42 +0100
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----Original Message----
>From: Jerrad Pierce
>Sent: 18 August 2005 17:38

> /cygdrive/c should not be invisible objects in the ether, they should live
> on the filesystem like a proper mounted filesystem, allowing them to
> accessible with tab completion.


  But they don't have to be actual objects for TAB completion to work.

  Guess what happens if you run "mkdir /cygdrive" ?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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