On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Dave Korn (Sun, 20 May 2007 17:16:43 +0100) >> On 20 May 2007 17:11, Brian Dessent wrote: >> > Dave Korn wrote: >> > >> >> This relies on the mountpoints being set correctly, which might not work >> >> if your drive letter changes ... >> > >> > Well if that is the case and / points to the wrong dir then I don't see >> > how you can be using Cygwin at all, >> >> I'm not sure exactly what Thorsten is looking for in his original question, > >Something like "cat /cygdrive/g/autorun.inf" from a shell script. > >> so I don't know if it's relevant here or not, but it might be useful for a >> portable installation to have a way to detect the drive letter so as to be >> able to (re)assign the mountpoints (e.g. from Cygwin.bat) before starting up >> a >> shell or other cygwin app. > >I already do that (something like "mount -fu %~d0\cygwin /") in a >batch script. Unfortunately the %~d0" trick is a Cmd thing so I can't >directly use it from bash or zsh.
So it sounds like Brian's method would work then wouldn't it? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
