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Update "How can I access other drives?" entry with details about --change-cygdrive-prefix 

and some other minor changes.
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David Starks-Browning 2000-10-24 16:43:50 +00:00
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@ -182,18 +182,18 @@ backward-slashes ('\'). (But see the warning below!) This maps in the
obvious way to the Windows path, but will be converted internally to use
the Cygwin path, following mounts (default or explicit). For example:
@example
bash-2.03$ cd C:/Windows
bash-2.03$ pwd
bash$ cd C:/Windows
bash$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/Windows
@end example
and
@example
bash-2.03$ cd C:/cygwin
bash-2.03$ pwd
bash$ cd C:/cygwin
bash$ pwd
/
@end example
for a default setup. (You could also use backward-slashes in the
Windows path, but these would have to be escaped from the shell.)
for a default setup. You could also use backward-slashes in the
Windows path, but these would have to be escaped from the shell.
@strong{Warning:} There is some ambiguity in going from a Windows path
to the posix path, because different posix paths, through different
@ -209,9 +209,12 @@ You can avoid the ambiguity of Windows paths, and avoid typing
bash$ mount c:/ /c
bash$ ls /c
@end example
Then @samp{/cygdrive/c/Windows} becomes @samp{/c/Windows} which is a
little less typing.
Note that you only need to mount drives once. The mapping is kept
in the registry so mounts stay valid pretty much indefinitely.
You can only get rid of them with umount (or the registry editor).
You can only get rid of them with umount, or the registry editor.
The '-b' option to mount mounts the mountpoint in binary mode
("binmode") where text and binary files are treated equivalently. This
@ -221,6 +224,13 @@ flags are missing from open calls. It is also the setting for /,
new mounts is text mode ("textmode"), which is also the mode for all
"cygdrive" mounts.
You can change the default @samp{cygdrive} prefix and whether it is
binmode or textmode using the @code{mount} command. For example,
@example
bash$ mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix cygdrive
@end example
will change all @code{/cygdrive/...} mounts to binmode.
@subsection How can I copy and paste into Cygwin console windows?
Under Windows NT, open the properties dialog of the console window.