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Re: How create variables to hold directory names on Windows bash?
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:39:10AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, neal olander wrote:
>
> > I'm working on a PC running Windows XP. Using win-bash, but not CygWin. I'm a
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> > PS: I"ve tried asking this question on the bash forum, but that is sort of
> > dormant and go no replies. I understand this is a Cygwin mailing list, so I
> > started with the "talk" mailing list, figuring I wouldnt bother people too
> > much.
>
> Well, this is a list for off-topic blabber about anything tangentially
> related to Cygwin. Your question was on-topic, and thus prime material
> for the main Cygwin list. Given that you posted here anyway, here's some
> obligatory off-topic content:
>
> When will people learn to *read the documentation*?
Right about when people learn to *read the question*! This is indeed
not a cygwin question, hence off-topic on the main list, and on-topic
here. (The tangential relationship to cygwin may be that the OP is
offering us an opportunity to convince him to switch to cygwin :)