Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

OK, as long as you're aware of the restrictions and adhere to them, it
should work for you without mounting or creating a wrapper batch file.

Larry


Terry Dabbs wrote:

> Thanks for the clarification. These are pretty standard MS workstations regardless of
> the task we are using them for (wish it was linux...), so I can't help but use the
> default drive. So, although it may be something to be aware of, it does appear it is
> hard to screw it up.
>
> Terry Dabbs
>
>
> Larry Hall wrote:
>
>
> > Terry Dabbs wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Thanks for the help. Since your advice kept me from having to "install" cygwin
> > > on the machines I'm going to run this on, the mounting, I suppose defaults to
> > > what it was on my compiling machine, which is the C drive for cygwin in my case.
> >
> > Actually, no.  I guess I wasn't clear.  Whether the file is found or not
> > depends on the current drive.  If the user's current drive is C: and you've
> > installed the file on the C drive, then the path will work.  Otherwise,
> > it will complain that the file isn't found.  If you want to avoid this,
> > you need to create the mount point I suggested or otherwise wrap your
> > application to make sure that C: is always the current drive when it
> > runs.
> >
> > --
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