>I have experienced many times situations which I would like to refer to
>CYGWIN's root directory from a bat script. The most generic solution
>would be to utilise an environment variable such as CYGROOT or (as in
>startxwin.bat) CYGWIN_ROOT to refer to the absolute windows pathname
>(e.g. D:\cygwin). This would free us from making assumptions if it was
>setup during the installation utility. The environment variable should
>be setup for system if installed for "All Users".
`cygpath -w /`
nice idea, but how does he execute cygpath, if he doesn't know the
cygwin-root? he is talking about a _batch_-script, not a shell script.