From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9dabd984ea966de9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsread.com!newsprint.newsread.com!news.glorb.com!news2.telebyte.nl!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder2.news.jippii.net!feeder1.news.jippii.net!nntp.inet.fi!central1.inet.fi!inet.fi!read3.inet.fi.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Sender: AWI003@FIW9430 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT on a multiboot computer References: <417DFD3C.6080209@stochastique.net> <417e16a7$0$30703$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <417f57d8$0$30704$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <549gd.17128$Qs6.1469677@news20.bellglobal.com> <1126782.ZbbeXJgdME@linux1.krischik.com> From: Anders Wirzenius Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:32:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.251.142.2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@inet.fi X-Trace: read3.inet.fi 1099038770 194.251.142.2 (Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:32:50 EEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:32:50 EEST Organization: Sonera corp Internet services Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5826 Date: 2004-10-29T08:32:50+00:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik writes: > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > > I have developed a fondness for C:\opt for non-cygwin software: > > > > c:\opt\gnat > > c:\opt\sybase > > c:\opt\mysql > > I prefer: > > D:\cygwin\opt\gnat > > etc. > > Has two advantages: > > 1) if you need to reinstall windows you cygwin on D: will not be destroyed > 2) within cygwin you can use shorter /opt instead of /cygdrive/c/opt > Nice. Is your OS installed on C:? Anders