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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:22:21PM -0600, Tim McDaniel wrote:
>Well, not in *this* special case, because "like this" is trying to find
>the Cygwin installation in the first place; if it knew where regtool
>was, it would already know where Cygwin was installed ...

You sort of have to know where "reg" or any other program is located
if you want to run it too.

If this is really a terrifically big issue then just add the cygwin bin
directory to your windows path directory and regtool, mount, and all
sorts of other programs will be available to you.

cgf

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