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Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 17:39:21 -0700
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Hi All...

>From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of 
>a drive?
>Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 13:36:16 -0400
>
>On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:27:05PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >So it sounds like Brian's method would work then wouldn't it?
>
>Does this give you what you want, too?
>
>driveroot=$(cygpath $(cygpath -wm /)/..)
>
What is the difference between "cygpath -m ..." and "cygpath -wm ..."

Thanks,

...Karl

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