oops I misread this question. I thought you said does cygwin emulate the unix filesystem. sorry. /dave -----Original Message----- From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com> Date: Thursday, July 06, 2000 1:50 PM Subject: Re: setting up Cygwin for windows >On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Frank Wagner wrote: >>is it possible to use cygwin and its toos without emulating a >>unix filesystem under windows? >>Nope. Sorry. The whole purpose of cygwin is to emulate UNIX. >>You can probably get away with using Windows paths for many of the tools >but I wouldn't claim that Windows paths (or other Windows paradigms) are >completely supported by every tool. >>cgf >>-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com