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Re: Admittedly not an Apple X11 question about path navigation
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Re: Admittedly not an Apple X11 question about path navigation


  • Subject: Re: Admittedly not an Apple X11 question about path navigation
  • From: Gareth Eason <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:17:37 +0100
  • Organization: University of Limerick Computer Society

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Allan Seidel wrote:
[snip]
> Why is it that on OSX X11 there seem to be no problems navigating back
> through the file path structure, yet while using Cygwin on a Windows box
> at work, one can navigate only as far back in the file path structure as
> the Cygwin root?_______________________________________________
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	   Hi,

	No, it's not an X11 question - but hopefully I can answer anyway :-)

	Apple uses HFS+ (by default) and a UNIX type filesystem. This means
that X11, Terminal, etc. are NOT emulating a filesystem on Apple machines.

	Windows has no concept of a UNIX-like filesystem, so cygwin, as you've
noticed, creates a 'virtual' UNIX-like filesystem for itself. it usually
mounts this under C:\cygwin.

	To find the root directories of your other drives under windows, check
out (under cygwin)  /cygdrive/<letter-of-drive>.

	On my machine, /cygdrive/c/ is my C:\ directory.

	TIP: What I do on cygwin is run `ln -s /cygdrive/c /c` so that I can
refer to directories as /c/tmp, /c/projects, /c/WINNT/, etc.

	Hope that helps.

	Best regards,
	-->Gar

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