Using mount in [1.7] from a Windows command prompt

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 4/2/2010 11:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  2 15:39, Fergus wrote:
>> In [1.5] I can use mount from a Windows command prompt:
>>
>> C:\>  d:\bin\mount c:/tmp /tmp
>> C:\>  d:\bin\mount
>> c:\tmp on /tmp type system (binmode)
>>
>> In [1.7] I want to be able to do the same thing but
>> C:\>  m:\bin\mount c:/tmp /tmp
>> achieves nothing.
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount
>
> Reading the docs *never* hurts.

Well, I got a paper cut reading docs once.  Nothing I didn't
recover from but boy did it hurt at the time. ;-)

We can all rest easy knowing that Cygwin documentation comes in
the very safe-for-consumption HTML format.  Try as I might,
I can't seem to get it to cut. ;-)

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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