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RE: Does is any connection between cygwin and mks.


--- "Schaible, Joerg" <Joerg.Schaible@gft.de> wrote:
> 
> >   2) Can I use cygwin from mks and visa-versa.
> 
> You should not. Basically it is no problem to call the executables of both,
> but most of the tools are available in both packages. Unfortunately both
> tools have different path handlings. The MKS Toolkit works with "C:/path",
> while Cygwin uses "/cygdrive/c/path" and has the ability for mounting
> drives, creating symlinks, and switch to UNC paths. 

You can also use C:/path in Cygwin.  And if you `mount -b c:/ /c' then you can
do /c/path as well.

Cheers,

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Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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