--- "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, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com --- < http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com > --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows < http://gw32.freeyellow.com/ > --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows < http://www.mingw.org/ > --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com