On Feb 14 07:49, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, andy! > > >> > My Moto G connects to the laptop via USB, and can be seen using Windows > >> > Explorer. Is there a way to make it visible as a Unix path? /cygdrive > >> > does > >> > not show it. > >> > >> Are you including the drive letter? If it’s the G: drive in Windows > > Explorer, you need to say something > >> like “ls /cygdrive/g”, not “ls /cygdrive”. > >> > >> If it isn’t appearing as a drive letter in Windows, they’re probably using > > some kind of Explorer shell > >> extension, which would mean the device isn’t visible through normal > > Windows mechanisms, hence not > >> visible to Cygwin. > > > It doesn't have a drive letter in Windows Explorer. The name is simply > > "Moto G". When I "ls /cygdrive", I see on the c-drive. I think that the > > handset's visibility to Windows Explorer is based on MTP USB, but that's > > just something I'm learning about right now. > > There's no MTP adapter for Cygwin. You're welcome to write one, though.
That would be really cool. In theory it should be possible to write a Cygwin fhandler class which accesses MTP/PTP devices. Quite a bit of work, probably, but doable. Maybe JonY's idea to create some plugin DLL mechanism into CYgwin would be a good start. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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