Greetings, Larry Hall (Cygwin)! > On 09/11/2014 09:20 AM, scotttins...@ups.com wrote: >> On this server, there is no sysnative under Windows. From a Windows CMD >> shell,
> 'sysnative' is only visible from 32-bit apps. It's not actually "visible". But you can access it. > See > <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384187%28v=vs.85%29.aspx> > Specifically: > 32-bit applications can access the native system directory by > substituting %windir%\Sysnative for %windir%\System32. WOW64 recognizes > Sysnative as a special alias used to indicate that the file system should > not redirect the access. This mechanism is flexible and easy to use, > therefore, it is the recommended mechanism to bypass file system > redirection. Note that 64-bit applications cannot use the Sysnative alias > as it is a virtual directory not a real one. > Unless you made sure that the CMD shell you're running is the 32-bit > version, it won't see sysnative. As I mentioned before, this is not a > Cygwin-specific issue. > If your goal is to be able to see and work seamlessly with other 64-bit > apps and Cygwin, you may find less difficulty if you install the 64-bit > version of Cygwin. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 11.09.2014, <17:59> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
